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Britain fears Keep 10,000 indiscriminate troops in Page 4 attacks on Afghanistan: Westerners in US presidential Bangladesh hopeful KABUL: A Republican presiden- tial candidate has called for keep- US is an ing at least 10,000 troops in Af- immigrant ghanistan to help the local forces and combat terrorists. Marco Ru- nation, bio wrote in an opinion piece for Page 5 should wel- Abdul Zuhoor Qayomi to probe fall of Kunduz city to on President Muhammad Ashraf the USA Today: The war, which the Taliban. Internal Security Ghani and Chief Executive Offic- many mistakenly believed would come refu- KABUL: The Wolesi Jirga on Sat- Committee (ISC) of the Wolesi er (CEO) Abdullah Abdullah to end in a matter of weeks, has last- gees: Kerry urday asked the government to Jirga said that security forces af- review the military operations ed far longer than anyone expect- review its anti-militants opera- ter 12 days operations failed to against militants in Kunduz. A ed. The senator from Florida said tions in northern Kunduz prov- weed the militants out of Kunduz delegation comprised of lawmak- the Afghans, besides fighting ince. The lawmakers criticized province. It said that lack of coor- ers from different provinces and against a brutal enemy, had to deal clearance operations of Afghan se- dination among security forces is members of ISC and Defense with enduring challenges, includ- G20 curity forces in Kunduz and said one of the big challenge in this re- Committee of the Wolesi Jirga ing drug lords who had the coun- endorses that the offensive should be prop- gard. will be assigned to investigate the try the world headquarters for the erly managed. They voiced their It said that the operations reasons behind fall of Kunduz city heroin commerce. Widespread Page 9 crackdown deep concerns over current secu- should be conducted based on to the Taliban militants. This corruption had dashed the hopes rity situation in the province and credible intelligence information. comes at a time that security forc- Afghans had pinned on their new on corporate said that the ongoing military op- In the meantime, Abdul Wadood es said that they have cleared many government, which was struggling tax evasion erations against militants cannot Paiman, an MP from Kunduz, said areas of the Taliban insurgents and to fight against warlords and or- bring peace to the province. The that the Taliban are hiding in civil- have killed and detained hundreds ganised crime and the resurgent Wolesi Jirga also decided to ap- ian houses. Speaker of the Wolesi of rebels in their military offen- Taliban, the lawmaker added. He point a parliamentary delegation Jirga, Abdul Rauf Ebrahemi, called sives in Kunduz. acknowledged Afghanistan had By Farhad Naibkhel made tremendous progress over the past 14 years a new con- Meet the KABUL: Aimed at accelerating stitution, five national elections, Lebanese the clearance operation, Ministry the inauguration last year of a Page 8 of Interior said on Saturday that pro-Western president and a tri- fighting next it would offer cash in rewards for pling in the size of the economy. information about foreign terror- The senator accused President door in ists and Afghan insurgents hiding Obama and former secretary Hil- Assad's army in Kunduz city. Spokesman to the lary Clinton of failing to give the interior ministry Seddiq Seddiqi US troops in Afghanistan the lead- said that in order to speed up clear- MAZAR-I-SHARIF: The newly- ly aware of security situation and ment and people of Sar-i-Pul, he ership, the resources and the time ance operation in Kunduz and appointed governor for northern other issues existed in Sar-i-Pul and said. Balkh Governor Atta Mo- they needed to finish the job. sweep out insurgents from the Sar-i-Pul province on Saturday was mentally and physically pre- hammad Noor dubbed Wahdat as Obama, who campaigned on giv- A chang- city, the ministry is ready to pro- pledged to improve the law and pared to handle the prevailing sit- honest man and his close ally of ing Afghanistan an additional $1 vide bounty on militants hiding in order situation with the support uation there. According to Wahdat, Jihad period. He assured the new billion in reconstruction assistance ing of the the provincial capital. Speaking at of people and central government. the role of central government and governor of full support in every per year, actually reduced civilian a press conference here he said During a ceremony held in people was vital for the develop- sphere of government. aid to Afghanistan every year Page 7 guard in that operations launched by Af- Mazar-i-Sharif, the capital of ment and prosperity of the prov- Wahdat had served as deputy since 2010, he continued. Rubio Algiers ghan security forces are moving northern Balkh province, Moham- inces. He would try to reduce the governor in Balkh before his new claimed the presidential actions ahead in Kunduz city, but still mad Zahir Wahdat said he was ful- existing gap between the govern- appointment. (Pajhwok) had undermined the military ef- there are some terrorists hiding in forts by announcing a timetable civilian population. Those peo- for withdrawal in advance, dictat- ple, who share information about ing a drawdown from 100,000 terrorists hiding in Kunduz city, 100 insurgents killed in Kandahar airstrikes troops to just 10,000. The Repub- their identity will not be dis- lican wrote Obama s actions had Messi closed, he added. He said that Se Almost 100 Taliban insurgents from the Kandahar police media gents had recently arrived in the made it possible for the Taliban cleared in Darak and Kotigerd areas in the have been killed in joint Afghan and office said. "The insurgents were district from bordering areas. No to seize the capital of northern city were cleared from insurgents. foreign troops airstrikes in south- gathered in Shurabak and had civilians were injured or killed in Kunduz province the first ma- Page 11 Barcelona Afghan forces would use all pos- ern Kandahar province, local offi- planned to capture the district but the strike, they said. The Taliban jor city captured by the militants tax fraud sible means to eliminate Taliban cials said on Saturday. the Afghan and foreign troops car- has not yet commented on the air- since 2001. Islamic State has fighters and terrorists in Kunduz In addition, 50 others were in- ried out airstrikes in which nearly strikes. Shurabak borders Pakistan been increasingly making inroads case province. Operation will contin- jured. The airstrikes targeted in- 100 insurgents were killed," offi- where insurgents are known to be in Afghanistan, even challenging ue in different parts of Kunduz surgents at a gathering in Shurabak cials said. active and frequently target local the Taliban for influence in some city. Police will do its best to pro- district of the province, officials Officials said that the insur- security forces. areas. (Pajhwok) tect civilians, the spokesman said. Seddiqi said that Afghan forc- After blizzard of es also retaken Gerziwan district from insurgents and operation is Afghanistan lies, it s underway against rebels in Fary- Page 6 ab province. Providing details GHAZNI CITY/JALALABAD: Directorate of Security (NDS) mad Aman Hamim also assured the ing five Pakistanis. Police spokes- tough to determine about the Taliban casualties in the At least 30 militants, including operation on the outskirts of the people that security forces were man Col. Hazrat Hussain Mashri- past 24 hours, he said that 190 seven would-be suicide bombers, provincial capital on Friday. The using all resources to beef up secu- qiwal told Pajhwok the 13 individ- militants were killed and 64 oth- have been arrested in different guerrillas planned to conduct co- rity in the province. Taliban should uals were detained in Kot, Nazyan who was deceived ers wounded in clearance opera- parts of the country, officials said ordinated attacks on security never think of taking Ghazni City; and Haska Mina districts. Late tions in different provinces. on Saturday. Security officials in check-posts in Ghazni City, but they would just lose their own men on Friday night, five suspects were The Taliban suffered heavy casu- Ghazni said six would-be suicide they were detained before reach- and. Ahmad Jamal, a resident of captured in the Janjal area of Kot, alties in Kandahar and Logar prov- bombers were among 17 suspect- ing their targets, he said. Tali- Andar district, said there was a large two in Haska Mina and six in Nazy- inces. He said that in Shorabak ed insurgents detained during an ban are spreading terror among the number of militants in the town, but an, he added. Meanwhile, a state- district of Kandahar, 100 militants operation in different parts of the people, but I assure there is noth- some of them had recently gone to ment from the 201st Selab Mili- SCO were killed and 50 injured. In Kher- southern province. Intelligence ing to worry about. The masses Kunduz province. In the eastern tary Corps said a militant attack war district of Logar, 45 rebels Director Ali Ahmad Mubarez told should support their security forc- province of Nangarhar, the author- on security posts in neighbouring Editorial P6 were killed including seven foreign Pajhwok Afghan News the mili- es in improving situation, ities claimed arresting more than a Kunar province had been thwart- membership fighters. tants were held during a National Mubarez said. Governor Moham- dozen suspected militants, includ- ed. (Pajhwok)

I will never Paktika explosion leaves divorce 4 civilians dead, 8 hurt Page 10 television of Afghanistan had carried out the Mahira in-human act. He said terrorist had KABUL: Kunduz displaced peo- killed due to the lack of attention eas, another protester, Zabihul- lost the ability to face Afghan se- Khan ple on Saturday staged a protest by government in Kunduz, he lah, said adding none of the dis- curity forces, so they continued tar- in capital Kabul asking the gov- said while asking the government placed families have so far been geting civilians. The governor said ernment to clear the northern to clear the city from the pres- assisted. According to the Afghan- investigation into the incident had Kunduz province from the pres- ence of Taliban and let the people istan National Disaster Manage- been launched. The explosion took ence of militants and facilitate their to return their homes. If the gov- ment Authority (ANDMA), near- place when some tribal elders were repatriation. More than 100 peo- ernment cannot fight against mili- ly 12,000 families have been dis- getting on to their cars, after com- Page 2 ple marched on the road to Presi- tants, it should give us arms to placed as a result of the insecurity ing to the district headquarters for dential Palace in the Zanbaq defend ourselves, houses and ar- of Kunduz. (Pajhwok) SHARAN: At least four civilians the resolution of a case, Juma Khan, square, while chanting slogans were killed and eight others injured commander of the Afghan Local down to America , down to Tal- in an explosion in the Zerok dis- Police (ALP), said. He said the det- iban , Taliban are the slaves of trict of southeastern Paktika prov- onation took place near the district ISI of Pakistan and We want ince on Saturday, a top provincial building, sustaining injuries to two peace . He lost his father as a rock official said. The blast took place gauds as well. An official of the Security hit his house in Kunduz, a dis- before noon near the main district Urgun Hospital who spoke on con- placed person, Habibullah told bazaar in the vicinity of the dis- dition of anonymity that four bod- forces retake Pajhwok Afghan News, adding the trict headquarters, Governor ies and nine wounded people had Page 12 Gorzaiwan bloodshed should be stopped in Aminullah Shariq told Pajhwok been brought to the hospital for Kunduz. Since we migrated to Afghan News. Youths and tribal treatment. According to the source, district Kabul, the government did no help elders were among the wounded some of the injured were in critical us. The injured people have been people, he said adding the enemies conditions. (Pajhwok)

65.00 63.70 73.10 71.50 This document was created with Win2PDF available at http://www.win2pdf.com. The unregistered version of Win2PDF is for evaluation or non-commercial use only. This page will not be added after purchasing Win2PDF. SUNDAY . OCTOBER 11, 2015 AFGHANISTAN TIMES Can new governors turn the Taliban tide in northern Afghanistan? Recent setbacks in Afghanistan, clear-armed sponsor. Pakistan has from the fall of Kunduz to the er- mastered the art of pretending to rant U.S. bombing of a hospital in help the United States while actu- that city, once again raise a ques- ally supporting its most deadly tion. Why, after 14 years of Amer- foes. Take the many efforts Amer- ican military efforts, is Afghani- ican officials have recently made stan still so fragile? The country to start talks with the Taliban. It has a democratically elected gov- turns out we were talking to ernment widely viewed as legiti- ghosts. Mullah Omar has been mate. Poll after poll suggests the dead for two years, all the while Taliban are unpopular. The Afghan Pakistani officials have been facil- army fights fiercely and loyally. itating "contacts" and "talks" with And yet, the Taliban always comes him. This is part of a pattern. Pa- back.The answer to this puzzle can kistani officials, from former Pres- be found in a profile of the Tali- ident Pervez Musharraf down, cat- ban's new leader, Akhtar Moham- egorically denied that bin Laden or med Mansour. It turns out that Mullah Omar were living in Paki- Mansour lives in Quetta some of stan, despite the fact that former the time, The New York Times re- Afghan President Hamid Karzai ports, "in an enclave where he and repeatedly pointed this out pub- some other Taliban leaders . . . have licly. "I do not believe Omar has built homes." His predecessor, ever been to Pakistan," Musharraf Mullah Omar, we now know, died said in 2007. The Pakistani army a while ago in Karachi. And of has been described as the "Godfa- course, we all remember that Osa- ther" of the Taliban. That might former ambassador to the United U.S. needs to see reality for what children who don't attend school ma bin Laden lived for many years understate its influence. Pakistan States, Husain Haqqani, whose it is: "When you are lied to and (the world's second highest num- in a compound in Abbottabad. All was the base for the American- book "Magnificent Delusions" is you don't respond, you are en- ber). three of these cities are in Paki- supported mujahedeen as they an essential guide, explains that couraging more lies." He argues As long as this military and its stan. We cannot solve the problem battled the Soviet Union in the "Pakistan has always worried that that Washington has to get much mindset are unchecked and unre- KABUL: The replacement of four tion of mixing ethnicity and poli- of Afghanistan without recogniz- 1980s. After the Soviet Union re- the natural order of things would tougher with the Pakistani military formed, the United States will face provincial governors in northern tics and instead appointing peo- ing that the insurgency against that treated from Afghanistan in 1989, be for Afghanistan to come under and make clear that its double-deal- a strategic collapse as it withdraws Afghanistan could stem years of ple based on education and experi- government is shaped, aided and the United States withdrew almost the sway of India, the giant of the ing must stop. To do this would its forces from the region. steady gains made by the Taliban ence. armed from across the border by as quickly, and Pakistan entered subcontinent. The Pakistani army be good for Afghanistan and sta- Fareed Zakaria hosts CNN's in the region, where thousands of This time he has installed gov- one of the world's most powerful that strategic void. It pushed for- came to believe that that it could bility in that part of the world, but "Fareed Zakaria GPS," and makes people have been displaced by vi- ernors based on their ethnic, tribal armies. Periodically, someone in- ward the Taliban, a group of young only gain leverage in Afghanistan it would also be good for Pakistan. regular appearances on shows such olence. While an insurgency has and religious affiliations, said Zia. side or outside the U.S. govern- Pashtun jihadis schooled in radical through religious zealots. Afghan- Pakistan is a time bomb waiting to as ABC's "This Week" and NBC's raged in the south since the Tali- That strategy is in keeping ment points this out. Yet no one Islam at Pakistani madrassas. istan's secular groups and ethnic explode. It ranks 43rd in the world "Meet The Press." He has been ban government was toppled by with Afghan traditions, said Ali knows quite what to do, so it is ("Talib" means student.) Now his- nationalists are all suspicious of by the size of its economy, accord- editor at large at Time magazine an American-led invasion in 2001, Mohammad Ali, a security analyst swept under the carpet and policy tory is repeating itself. As the Pakistan, so the only path in is ing to the World Bank, but has the since 2010, and spent 10 years northern Afghanistan was for years with the Afghanistan Research and stays the same. But this is not an United States draws down its forc- through those who see a common, sixth largest armed forces. It has overseeing Newsweek's foreign considered one of the most secure Evaluation Unit, a Kabul-based incidental fact. It is fundamental, es, Pakistan again seeks to expand religious ideology." This strategy the fastest-growing nuclear arse- editions. He is a Washington Post areas in the country. Since 2009, think tank. Afghanistan is a trib- and unless it is confronted, the its influence through its long- is not new, Haqqani points out, nal, and the most opaque. It main- (and internationally syndicated) the insurgents have been steadily al country and ethnicity is part of Taliban will never be defeated. It standing proxy. Get Newsmax TV noting that funding for such groups tains close ties with some of the columnist. He is author of: "The gaining ground in the north and the political culture, Ali said. is an old adage that no counterin- At Home » Special: Ben Carson began in the mid-1970s, before the world's most brutal terrorists. Its Post-American World." For more clashes with pro-government forc- These new appointments are surgency has ever succeeded when Credits Presidential Campaign to Soviets invaded Afghanistan in military consumes 26 percent of of Fareed Zakaria's reports, Go es have intensified, along with the more aligned with the understand- the rebels have had a safe haven. This Brain Pill Why does Pakistan 1979. What should the United all tax receipts by some estimates, Here Now. disruption of humanitarian aid. The ing of tribal leaders and with their In this case, the rebels have a nu- support the Taliban? Pakistan's States do? First, says Haqqani, the while the country has 5.5 million World Food Programme temporari- consultation. Ali said Ghani s ly suspended operations in Badak- previous decision to send Omar shan Province last month after five Safai, an ethnic Pashtun, to govern of its vehicles disappeared along Kunduz, a province where Pash- with their drivers (they were later tuns are a minority, had contribut- released). In their most brazen as- ed to dissatisfaction with the gov- sault yet, outnumbered Taliban ernment and allowed the Taliban fighters last week captured Kun- to gain support. Safai was in duz, the first provincial capital to Tajikistan when the Taliban took fall to the insurgents in the almost Kunduz city and has not returned, 14 years of war since their ouster. and Ghani has yet to name a suc- Taliban and pro-government forc- cessor as fighting continues. But es continue to battle for control of Ali said the appointment of Zia in Kunduz and fighting has forced neighbouring Takhar Province was humanitarian agencies and resi- a clear attempt to help quell the dents to leave the city. The wound- insurgency in Kunduz. Zia former- ed have little access to medical care ly served as head of Afghanistan s ith shops in Notting Hill Afghan men and women in skilled I found a group of craftsmen quite a traditional design feel and in burkas and there s the Kuchi since Médecins Sans Frontières counter-terrorism unit and then as as well as Los Angeles, trades that would lead to entre- at Turquoise Mountain and went just saying Why don t you just woman with her red fabric and her evacuated after a US airstrike hit deputy chief of the country s in- WLondon-based jewelry preneurial careers. How did you back twice a year to make collec- make this? . Then you may as well embroidery and mirrors all over the charity s hospital on 3 Octo- telligence agency, the National Di- designer Pippa Small has devel- first get involved with Turquoise tions with those craftsmen that have it made in China. It s about her skirt, it s such a wonderful ber, killing at least 22 people. See: rectorate of Security. This man s oped a large following for her state- Mountain? I ve been working I d sell to Barney s. We did a few trying to include them, having contrast. How many artisans are Aid agencies withdraw from Af- appointment to govern the prov- ment-making bohemian jewelry with this group for about seven collections for Monsoon, which their hand in it and including the employed at the workshop? There ghanistan's North Kunduz resident ince neighbouring Kunduz could be which works with the natural con- years now. I went out initially to since it s on the high street is great cultural and historical references are about 20 there s about 6 girls Faisal Rasuli told IRIN by phone extremely effective in regaining tours of gem stones for a river- design a collection with a charity for volume, great for them to get that are there. Whether it s in Ken- and 14 boys. It fluctuates a bit, that his neighbour, who was control in the area, Ali said. Yet, tumbled, imperfect feel . But even to go with the Bactrian collection, consistent orders so we re work- ya or South Africa or Bolivia or but the main core of boys has been wounded in crossfire last week, Ali said the political gains made more impressive than the stunning a horde of gold from the second ing on our third collection for Chile. So the Afghan collection has there since I started. They proba- died after bleeding out for hours. by appointing well-connected gov- aesthetics of her pieces are the in- century around the time of Alex- Monsoon. After a few years, I central Asian and Islamic influence, bly started at 12, 15 and that s The (government) hospital is ernors need to be matched on the credible partnerships Pippa forms ander the Great. The gold had thought it d be great to create fu- but this new collection has a little their life. The girls started coming far and we have no access because battlefield if the strategy is to work. with local artisans around the been hidden by the museum di- sion line with Turquoise Moun- more contemporary feeling a in when the second lot started grad- the city is still not fully under the The government needs to go back world. Developing jewelry lines rector in Kabul when the Taliban tain. I love the fact that it s em- little more modern. uating. To have a school for the control of the government, he said. on the offensive and get out of the that draw on their heritage but can came through. He buried it and ploying and a training presence for What s the process like of arts and crafts to have those peo- Leadership changes Analysts have defensive mode, he said. Instead be sold in a global market, Pippa when the Taliban fell, he had young women. It s brilliant. working with the Afghan arti- ple graduating and working in the criticised the government of Pres- of reacting to the action of the en- has worked with everyone from opened where he hidden it. What s the design concept sans? field is brilliant. Because ordinari- ident Ashraf Ghani for failing to emy, they really need to go after the Kuna Indians of Panama to They re beautiful exquisite piec- for The Turquoise Mountain They have these lovely car- ly they d end up being a taxi driv- shore up security forces in Kun- them. the Batwa of Rwanda to the San es that have touring around the collection? pets all over the workshop, so we er. What Turquoise Mountain is duz Province and impose his au- Dire conditions Bushmen of Botswana, to slum world. The charity thought be- Whenever I work with a com- sit on the carpets and share ideas. doing is so important because thority. Instead, pro-government The human toll of the govern- dwellers in Kenya and Aymara cause it was touring, they d have munity, I try to draw on their aes- Once that I wanted to do ear cuffs, they re creating the business de- militias have been allowed to com- ment s attempt to take back Kun- goldsmiths in Bolivia. a craftsman make jewelry that thetic. I don t see the point of but I couldn t bring myself to de- velopment side so the students mit abuses against locals and feed duz could be seen over the past Her latest line, The Turquoise they could sell in the museums. working somewhere where there s scribe how to make ear cuffs to have somewhere to work after anti-government sentiment. See: week as those who could escape Mountain collection, is a striking these men, that was too much, so they graduate from school. Do the Abuses rise along with pro-Afghan streamed out of the city. The WFP collection of strong, bold pieces I just left that one. I sketch it all artisans have a lot of design ideas government militias In the wake said it began distributing provisions handcrafted by young men and out, I use reference books of cen- for the jewelry? That s interest- of the humiliating, if temporary, today to some of those displaced women in Afghanistan. tral Asia or Afghan or anything ing. They do have some ideas and loss of Kunduz city, Ghani has by the fighting. More than 1,000 Jewelry-making in Afghani- relevant to them, to draw inspira- they have ideas about how to in- appointed new governors to four families who fled to the cities of stan, a country rich in gem stones, tion. What was your inspiration terpret what we ve designed neighbouring provinces, according Mazar-e-Sharif and Taluqan re- was a longstanding cultural tradi- for this collection? I was inspired because all they have are my draw- to a brief statement posted ceived a month s worth of food, tion almost wiped out by decades by a group of nomadic people ings [to work from] and then I m Wednesday night to a government while 1,800 people in a temporary of conflict and Taliban rule. Tal- called the Kuchi. The women have gone. Does it ever come out dif- Facebook page. The leadership camp outside Mazar-e-Sharif were ented artisans were forced to flee big swinging skirts, they walk in a ferently than you expect? Yes. changes in Takhar, Faryab, Baghlan given bread made of wheat flour the country or give up their craft sassy way and they were lots of [laughs] In a good way? and Sar-i-Pul are seen as an attempt fortified with vitamins and miner- that almost succeeded in stripping jewelry. There s a security guy Absolutely. What they find to ensure that the Taliban is not als. But the UN's food assistance the Afghan people of an impor- where I used to stay used to call difficult is really plain things. I able to repeat its military success- agency said it was seriously con- tant cultural piece of their heri- me a Kuchi woman because I wore designed one of the necklaces to es in those provinces. They cerned about the safety and food tage. Then in 2006, supported by so much jewelry. And it s a bit be very plain. And they say didn t tell any of us why we are security of people remaining in the President of Afghanistan and like saying a wild woman. It s not Should we decorate it? and I say going there, but it s clearly because Kunduz, as fighting intensifies. the Prince of Wales, Turquoise a bad thing to say it s kind of a No, we just want to keep it mod- of the Kunduz situation, Moham- Accounts from those trapped in Mountain was established to re- compliment but in this country, ern and plain. So they produce mad Yasin Zia, the new governor the city are grim. The dead bod- vive traditional Afghan craft of where there s so many things that my design, but then they sent one of Takhar, told IRIN. The new ap- ies were piled in the streets and jewelry-making, woodworking, are restricted, it s something that s necklace which they engraved pointments signal a shift in tactics had been making the city smell re- calligraphy and ceramics. Tur- a bit wild still. The collection is with vines and flowers because by Ghani, a former World Bank ally bad, but they have been quoise Mountain revived the once dedicated to them. They have they couldn t resist it. It doesn t economist who has become known cleared from my area in the last derelict Murad Khani section of W h at s th e de s ign co n ce pt fo r Th e Tu rqu o is e beautiful embroidery. On the quite fit in, but it s beautiful any- for eschewing Afghanistan s tradi- two days, Rasuli told IRIN. Kabul as well as training young Mo u n tain co lle ctio n ? street you see the Afghan woman way. 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the hospitals in Balkh province. The body of his brother was left on the ground for many hours until the rest of the family could come together for his burial, ?Atiqullah said. The Kunduz battle has re- portedly left about 6,000 residents homeless, most of whom have fled to neighboring Takhar and Baghlan provinces. Majority of the city killed his brother and injured two of which fell to the Taliban last Mon- his family members. According to day is now under the control of him, insurgents looted their house government. However the fighting and showed no mercy to them. is still underway in parts of the "When they [Taliban] came to our city. The security forces have home, my brother didn't escape and launched a house-to-house search he was saying that 'I am not running operation to make sure the insur- anywhere, I am here to defend my gents are no longer hiding in civil- Despite being driven out of the rity forces; however it is the civil- 12th day. TOLOnews correspon- their loved ones or have faced mas- country, my nation'," Atiqullah said. ian homes a tactic that helped the city center, insurgents are still ians who are paying the price for dent Sharif Amiry has visited sev- sive financial losses. Atiqullah, who He said his second brother was also Taliban to capture the city for sev- engaged in clashes with the secu- the fighting which has entered its eral families that have either lost is injured himself, said the Taliban wounded and is currently in one of eral days.

EMERGENCY CALLS Police 100 - 119 Hospitals ith the Taliban threaten the Central Asian states before he FMIC Hospital ing to overrun large parts returned to Kabul permanently in Wof Afghanistan, First 2009. Welcome In Grozny While Behind Kabul Medical Vice President Abdul Rashid Dos- in Russia, Dostum paid a visit to University: tum is seeking help from an old the North Caucasus region of ally Russia. A graduate of the Chechnya -- and posted a photo 0202500200-+93793275595 Paul R. Pillar not usher in peace, let alone any- Soviet Military Academy and a with his "friend" Kadyrov on Fa- The Russian military intervention thing resembling democracy. When general in the Soviet-backed Af- cebook on October 5. Kadyrov to shore up the Assad regime in the Afghan regime of Najibullah ghan army, Dostum is hoping his posted the same snapshot on Ins- Rabia-i-Balkhi Hospital Syria, coupled with the previous- whom the Soviets installed after old links to Moscow will help him tagram. Dostum said the two dis- Pule Bagh-e- Umomi ly begun U.S.-led military inter- Karmal demonstrated his inability secure crucial military support for cussed "the fight against terrorism, vention in the same country to get control of the situation fell 070263672 three years after the last Soviet Afghanistan s besieged security especially against Daesh," using amid uncertainty about U.S. war forces. A trip to Russia took him the Arabic acronym for the Islam- aims and a reluctance to part with troops left, civil war continued un- abated, with different militias that to Moscow and Chechnya, where ic State group, which is also known the objective of ousting Assad he met with Ramzan Kadyrov on as ISIS. "Dostum noted that ISIS Khairkhana Hospital presents the specter of a proxy had received U.S. aid battling among war between Russia and the Unit- themselves. This led to the Taliban the Kremlin-backed regional is trying to make Afghanistan into 0799-321007 ed States. Before the specter gets sweeping to power over most (but strongman s birthday on October a bridgehead," Kadyrov wrote on 2401352 any closer to becoming a reality, not all) of the country, to the Tali- 5. Dostum, who led an ethnic Instagram on October 5. "In order we should gain what insights we ban playing host to the Arabs of al- Uzbek militia during the civil war to prevent this threat, Kabul needs can from a country that hosted Qaeda, and the rest is history. And of the 1990s, landed in Moscow Russia's support, as in Syria." previous proxy warfare, that was in a later phase of Afghan history, last week. He has held talks with Kadyrov added that he was confi- Indira Gandhi Children the scene of military interventions U.S. ouster of the Taliban again top Russian security officials, Afghan First Vice President Abdul Rashid Dostum (left) meets dent that Moscow would make a Hospital, Wazir Akbar by both Moscow and Washing- failed to bring anything resembling pleading for heavy weapons and with Chechnya s Ramzan Kadyrov in Grozny on October 5. "positive decision in response to ton, and that continues to be a peace to Afghanistan. The role of helicopter gunships for the this request." Local Chechen me- Khan, Kabul 2301372 problem for U.S. policy: Afghan- extremists and of terrorists who 350,000-strong Afghan National pledged to pressure the former Kazakhstan in order to negotiate dia quoted Dostum as praising istan. We should learn what les- have struck against the United Security Forces. The Russian Kadyrov's own experience in bat- States and the West ought to be of Soviet republics of Central Asia, potential deals for such assistance. sons we can regarding both risks side is committed to support and three of which border Afghanistan, But he came back empty-handed. tling terrorism. "Both Ramzan and opportunities in such places, high concern to Americans reflect- Ibn-e- Seena ing on history of the Afghan con- help Afghanistan in terms of help- to boost support for the country, Dostum is now hoping his former Kadyrov and I have been waging while understanding the differenc- ing its air and military forces, the struggle with international ter- Pul-e-Artan, Kabul es as well as the similarities be- flict, and on how earlier American Faizy said. Looking For Help connections with Moscow will policymakers may have focused Dostum s spokesman, Sultan Faizy said Russian officials translate into direct support. The rorism," Dostum was quoted as tween the conflicts in Afghanistan Faizy, told RFE/RL by telephone. saying by Grozny-inform.ru. "In 2100359 and Syria. Whatever other motives too narrowly and shortsightedly on told Dostum they were concerned former strongman studied in the Russian president Vladimir Putin defeating the Soviets. The compar- We re lacking air support, weap- about Islamic State (IS) militants Soviet Military Academy in Mos- this field we can make a substan- has in doing what he is doing to- ison with Syria ought to be too ob- ons, ammunition. We need a lot of gaining ground in Afghanistan and cow in the 1980s and then served tive coalition. We can learn from Wazir Akbar Khan day in Syria, shoring up a belea- vious to need much reflection, giv- backing and support to fight the Taliban s brief capture last as a general in the Afghan army, each other. We don't have concrete guered regime that has been a en the current reality of the radical against terrorism. But Faizy said week of the northern city of Kun- commanding his own militia bat- projects of cooperation yet, but Hospital friend and client of Russia is clearly group ISIS, as well as an al-Qaeda that would not mean direct mili- duz, the first time the militants talion that fought against the mu- that doesn't mean there won't be 2301741, 2301743 one of the immediate objectives. affiliate, forming a major part of the tary intervention by Russia, which have overrun a major urban center jahedin guerrillas. Dostum's mili- any in the future." Rights activ- In that respect the action is very alternative to the Assad regime. The is still mindful of the 1979-89 war since being ousted from power by tias received extensive funding and ists accuse Kadyrov of condoning similar to what the Soviet Union Afghan experience as well as the that killed some 15,000 Soviet the U.S.-led invasion in 2001. weapons from Moscow. After abuses, ignoring Russia's consti- Ali Abad did when it threw its forces into Syrian conflict itself show why the soldiers and has repeatedly said it Dostum has urged the Central Moscow cut off aid to the com- tution, and creating a climate of Afghanistan in 1979, in an effort oft-voiced counterfactual about would not send troops to Afghan- Asian countries where he has munist regime in 1992, Dostum fear to suppress an Islamist insur- Shahrara, Kabul to shore up a similarly beleaguered how a bigger and earlier U.S. in- istan. Faizy said that Moscow had gency and separatism in Chech- volvement in the Syrian war would visited regularly to provide switched sides and joined the client regime in Kabul. Another promised to evaluate the situation weapons and other military sup- rebels until the Taliban seized nya, the site of two devastating 2100439 similarity in the two conflicts is somehow have produced a more viable and effective moderate in Afghanistan and see what they port. Last year, Dostum made un- Kabul. He would spend the inter- post-Soviet wars that revived that the opposition to each regime can help with. Russia has also official visits to Uzbekistan and vening years in exile in Turkey and memories of the Afghan conflict. comprised a variety of armed opposition is invalid. The post- Malalai Maternity groups in a predominantly Sunni Najibullah phase of Afghan history Muslim country, with the groups demonstrated the pattern seen else- Hospital ranging from mostly secular to mil- where as well, and being seen to- itant Islamist. And in each case day in Syria, of radicals crowding Retired police officer 2201377/ 2301743 opposition groups received ma- out moderates in a situation of pro- terial support from Arab states longed warfare and instability. It is and, later, from the United States. in the nature of such situations for gunned down in Bagram Banks So far the Russian military opera- such a pattern to prevail, civil war tion in Syria is much smaller than being an inherently immoderate CHARIKAR: Unidentified gun- Shakoor Qodoosi, told Pajhwok Da Afghanistan Bank the Soviet expedition in Afghani- thing to wage. The Stingers and oth- men shot dead a retired police of- Afghan News. stan, which at its peak involved er U.S. aid bought the United States ficer in the Bagram district of cen- The attackers managed to flee 2100302, 2100303 115,000 troops. No Russian little or nothing in the way of sub- tral Parwan province, an official from the scene, but police have ground troops have yet been com- sequent influence. One of the big- said on Saturday. launched an investigation into the Bakhtar Bank mitted to combat in Syria, al- gest, and most relevant for current The incident occurred on Fri- case, he said adding no one has so though hints from Moscow and policy questions, differences be- day evening when the attackers far claimed responsibility for in- 0776777000 the facts on the ground will make tween the Soviet phase of the Af- opened fire on Mohamamd Arif cident. Mohammad Arif, 67 was it unsurprising if Russian volun- ghan war and the current war in in his orchard in the Qalandarkhel retired from his job four years ago Azizi Bank teers start participating directly Syria is that there isn t a Cold War area of Bagram district, the admin- as police officer, he said. (Pajh- in the fight. Regardless of the dis- any more. There is no reason today istrative head of the town, Abdul wok) 0799 700900 crepancy in size of the two oper- to gauge the advance and retreat of ations, the prospects for quagmire U.S. interests worldwide in terms Pashtany Bank that have faced the Soviets and of the retreat and advance of the 2102908, 2103868 Russians in each place are com- country whose capital is Moscow, parable. Bashar Assad is no more as was habitually done during the secure today than Afghan presi- Cold War. If Russia were to main- Air Services dent Babrak Karmal was in 1979. tain all of the position and influ- The insecurity in each case has ence it hopes to maintain in what- been due not to any direct coun- ever part of Syria the Assad regime Safi Airways tervailing military intervention by controls, it would be small pota- outside powers the United toes compared to how successful- 020 22 22 222 States and the USSR/Russia have ly the Soviet Union competed for not used their forces in Afghani- influence throughout the Middle Ariana stan at the same time as the other East during most of the Cold War. did but to the deep unpopulari- Countering Russia wasn t even part 020-2100270 ty of each incumbent regime and of the original reason for the Unit- the unlikelihood that it ever could ed States to get involved in the Syr- form the basis of lasting stability ian conflict. It would be one of the Kam Air in its country, in the face of per- worst examples of mission creep if 0799974422 sistent and in large part religious- this comes to be seen as a reason, ly inspired opposition. How far and doubly unfortunate if the po- Vladimir Putin wades into this tential proxy war were allowed to Hotels quagmire before devoting more become a real one. Probably the big- attention to finding a way out re- gest single lesson from the Afghan Safi Landmark mains to be seen. But we can al- example concerns the quagmire po- ready say that the situation he tential, as demonstrated by the So- faces in Syria is more like Afghan- viets experience as their military 020-2203131 efforts dragged on through the istan in the 1980s than like, say, SHARAN: Residents of southern rupees from the residents of the Ukraine. In Ukraine he has had 1980s, and as demonstrated by the SERENA U.S. experience after the mission Paktika province have said Tali- district. Government is weak but the limited objective of keeping ban collected millions of Pakistani Taliban are powerful here, that is Ukraine out of the Western orbit of retaliation for 9/11 and ousting 0799654000 of the European Union and the Taliban and al-Qaeda from their Rupees in Usher (one-10th part why people give them usher, he NATO. A relatively low-cost comfortable places creeped into of the total yield) during the past said. Civil society institutes coor- commitment along his own coun- being a nation-building operation. one year. They said that militants dinator Yaqub Khan said that he New Rumi Restaurant try s border to maintain a frozen In applying the quagmire dimension collected millions only from pin was resident of Urgon district 0776351347 conflict, with the use of a few lit- to Syria, think about how U.S. forc- So, you thought the U.S. military Denmark, France, Germany, Ita- nut owners and traders. The Pak- where militants took millions of tle green men in unmarked uni- es now have been in Afghanistan pulled out of Afghanistan? ly and Poland. tika province is situated on the money from people as usher. He forms, may serve that purpose. for 14 years (which doesn t even After all, that s what President Some parts of the country are Durand Line; it is rich in having asked the government to take seri- Internet Services The conflict in Syria will not count, of course, the time during Barack Obama indicated in De- more dangerous pine nut jungles and other dry ous action against militants and freeze, and it does not serve Rus- which the United States was giving cember when he declared combat Southern Afghanistan has fruits trees. Mirbaz, a resident of prevent them from taking money UA Telecom sian purposes well to be prop- significant material aid to Afghan in the longest U.S. war was now been home for much of the deadli- Zerok district told Pajhwok Af- from people. However, Paktika 0796701701 / 0796702702 ping up endlessly a besieged cli- insurgents, a process that began history. est of fighting. That s not too sur- ghan News militants were deliv- governor s spokesman Nabiullah ent regime in control of only a frac- more than three decades ago). Then In fact, about 9,800 U.S. prising: The Taliban had set up think about the possibility of de- ering their usher registering sheets Peerkhail was unaware about the tion of its country s territory. The troops provide training and sup- headquarters there in Kandahar. to residents so they should fill it issue. We would direct our intel- Exchange Rate Afghan mujahedin s war against bate in Washington in 2029, 14 years from now, about how many troops port in Afghanistan. They are to The U.S. ground war began there and give money to them. Tali- ligence and security organs to in- the Soviets is the subject of fond remain until the end of the year in 2001, and the Taliban capitu- ban militants in Warzhana village vestigate about the issue, anyone Purchase: Cold War memories of many peo- the United States ought to be keep- ing in Syria. Vladimir Putin s gam- a change from the Obama ad- lated Kandahar shortly after the of Zerok have created a commis- who usher to Taliban would be ple on the U.S. side of the Cold ministration s initial plan to reduce Marines landed and took control War divide. The effort, begun un- bit in Syria has poured fuel on a sion that take one-10 part of the punished, he said. Pajhwok tried One US$ = der Jimmy Carter and continued fire and has made a complicated and the number to 5,500. A military of the airport. total income of pine nut from farm- to take the view of Taliban mili- under Ronald Reagan, to supply dangerous situation on the ground withdrawal is set be completed by Attack on hospital renews ers, he said. People must pay tants about the issue, but the con- 64.25Afs the mujahedin is widely perceived (and in the air) even more compli- end of the 2016. attention on the war that money, if anyone refused to tact was not established. Few One Pound Sterling= as having been instrumental in cated and dangerous. But for now The war was deadliest for the On October 3, not long after give, he would face various threats months ago, Taliban spokesman defeating the Soviets in Afghani- we ought to be glad to the extent U.S. in 2010 the Afghan military recaptured from militants, Mirbaz said. He Zabihullah Mujahid said that he 97.96Afs stan, a defeat that in turn is often that the costs of proto-quagmire fall The September 11, 2001, at- Kunduz from the Taliban, a U.S. added that Zerok, Urgon, Omni, would punish those who taken ush- One Euro = seen as contributing significantly on Russia and not on the United tacks led the United States to in- gunship launched an airstrike and Sar Rawza, Gumal, Sarubi, Bar- er from people if found. Paktika to the downfall of the Soviet States. vade Afghanistan. The United accidentally struck a Doctors mal and Naki districts were rich shares 365 kilometers of border 71.96Afs Union itself. The supply of man- We also ought to look to other sil- States quickly dislodged the Tali- Without Border hospital in that in pine nuts and the farmers there with neighbor Pakistan and most 1000 Pak Rs = ver linings in the gambit which portable air defense systems the ban government that had sheltered city, the U.S. military said. were forced by militants to pay of deals were on Pakistani rupees. 612Afs famous Stinger to the rebels was admittedly assume that Putin is as Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda, The attack killed 12 medical smart as he often is cracked up to usher to them. Bahadar Khan a Taliban Spokesman Zabihullah the centerpiece of this aid. But it which orchestrated the terrorism. staff members, seven adult pa- resident of Omni district said that Mujahid confirmed people in Pak- Sale: would be dangerous to attempt be: that the Russian leader knows the only way to step out of a cost- A U.S.-led coalition battled the tients and three children patients. militants have collected millions tika had given them the Ushar. Peo- One US$ = something comparable in Syria, Taliban for years after a new Af- The bombardment of the No- of Pakistani rupees from the peo- ple give Ushar to the Taliban with where U.S. and allied aircraft and ly quagmire is to work diligently 64.45 Afs with other outside powers to nego- ghan government took charge. bel Prize-winning humanitarian ple of the district. Citing an exam- their own choice to be a part of the not just Russians operate. Dis- Nearly seven in 10 coalition group s outpost amounted to what One Pound Sterling= tributing such systems to anyone tiate some sort of resolution of the ple, he said, Militants take holy war Jihad and earn the re- in the fractured Syria opposition Syrian conflict; and that through military members killed in Af- the American said was a tragic 10,000 Pakistani rupees as usher wards. Taliban do equip themselves 98.76Afs would result in a significant chance Russia s intervention he has ac- ghanistan were Americans, though mistake. It also put a sudden spot- on each 30 pine nut trees from from similar resources, said Mu- One Euro= they would be used against Amer- quired more of the sort of leverage the United Kingdom also lost sev- light on how the United States farmers, A tribal elder of Gayan jahid. He said Taliban did not use ican planes. One of the principal over the Assad regime that will be eral hundred service members. remains rooted in Afghanistan de- district Kamal Khan was on the force to collecting Ushar, but peo- 72.56 Afs lessons from Afghanistan is that necessary to effect any such reso- Also killed: Military men and spite popular perceptions to the same view. He said that Taliban ple willingly submitted the amount 1000 Pak Rs= 620Afs defeat of a despised regime does lution. women from Canada, Australia, contrary. (CNN) collected 20,000,000 Pakistani of Usher to them. (Pajhwok) This document was created with Win2PDF available at http://www.win2pdf.com. The unregistered version of Win2PDF is for evaluation or non-commercial use only. This page will not be added after purchasing Win2PDF. SUNDAY . OCTOBER 11, 2015 AFGHANISTAN TIMES India protests after maid's arm cut off in Saudi Arabia India's foreign ministry has de- manded Saudi Arabia punish one of its citizens for chopping the hand off an Indian domestic worker. Inside Story - The plight of migrant workers in Saudi Arabia In a statement pub- lished on its website on Friday, LAHORE: Pakistan and India The premier further said: "We the ministry said it wanted "se- should live like "good neighbours" have laid a foundation of strong vere punishment" for the per- and resolve all issues including ties with Afghanistan. We really petrator of the attack on Kast- Kashmir through dialogue, Prime worked hard to bring (Afghan) huri Munirathinam. Minister Nawaz Sharif said here Taliban on negotiation table. "As the Honorable External on Saturday. "While the overt talks were Affairs Minister has stated to- "I raised the issue of Kashmir under in Pakistan the news of day, this brutal incident is deep- in the UN with courage and spoke Mullah Omar's death was broken ly disturbing. Our Mission of- out my heart (over the issue). I that sabotaged this effort. I don't ficials have visited Mrs. Kast- also gave a proposal to India to know why two years after his huri in the hospital. Her situa- improve ties with Pakistan. death the news was broken at the tion is currently stable," the "We (Indian and Pakistan) time when talks were underway," statement read. India's Minis- should live like good neighbours he said, adding Pakistan was again ter of External Affairs Shushma and find out a solution to the Kash- trying to bring the Taliban and Af- Swaraj called the attack unac- mir issue," Sharif said while talk- ghan government on the table. ceptable and said she was "dis- ing to reporters at the governor's Sharif said his government turbed over the brutal manner" house here. would get another term (after 2018 Munirathinam had been treat- The Prime Minister said he general elections) because the peo- ed. History of abuse told the United Nations that it was ple are happy with its perfor- A spokesman for the Indian its resolution on Kashmir and not mance. foreign ministry confirmed that that of Pakistan therefore it was He underlined the achieve- Indian diplomats in Riyadh had the body's duty to implement it. ments of his government in trans- lodged a formal complaint at the "I spoke the truth while look- port, health, education and energy Saudi foreign ministry. ing into their eyes. The UN should sectors, adding that the country's Munirathinam, who comes realise itself and implement its res- economy has stabled because of from a village in the southern olution on Kashmir," he said. his government's people-friendly state of Tamil Nadu, had suf- In his address last week at the polices. fered a catalogue of abuse since United Nations General Assembly, Sharif also said that he had taking up a post as a domestic Sharif had proposed a four-point thought of stepping down had the worker in Saudi Arabia three formula to improve ties with In- report of the Judicial Commission months ago, according to her dia. He proposed demilitarisation auditing the rigging allegations in family. of Kashmir, immediate and uncon- 2013 elections pinpointed rigging. "Her right hand was ditional withdrawal of Indian "Had the judicial commission's re- chopped off by her employer troops from Siachen, resumption port not come in our favour, I when she tried to escape the of composite dialogue and formal- would have stepped down," he daily harassment, torture and isation of border ceasefire. said. abysmal work conditions," her sister Vijayakumari told the AFP news agency by phone from Tamil Nadu state's capital Chen- nai. Vijayakumari said that her Britain fears Sri Lankan Navy arrests 19 sister had gone to Saudi Arabia to help pay off her family's debts and she had been prom- ‘indiscriminate’ ised a monthly salary of around fishermen from Tamil Nadu $180. "But she was not paid, she was barely given enough to eat and not even allowed to attacks on speak to her family... Now she only wants to come home," Vi- jayakumari said. The family says that prob- Westerners in lems started for Munirathinam, who was one of five domestic workers in the same household, after she complained to the lo- Bangladesh cal authorities about her situa- tion. Footage of Munirathinam lying in her Saudi hospital bed was broadcast by several Indi- an media outlets. Foreign ministry spokes- man Vikas Swarup confirmed that Munirathinam was still re- cuperating in the Riyadh hospi- tal but said that efforts were being made to bring her home. "We are in touch with the woman, hospital and the local police authorities. She will get all possible legal and other help from the embassy," Swarup said. Hundreds of thousands of Indian migrants work in house- holds in Saudi Arabia and other Gulf countries but complaints about their treatment by their employers often make headlines back home. A video showing a male In- dian worker being beaten by his Saudi employer went viral in September, sparking a wide- Nineteen fishermen from the Tamil Joint Director of Fisheries Depart- ber 22 arrested 15 fishermen from Joint Director of Fisheries, spread backlash on social me- Nadu district were arrested by the ment Subburaj said. this district for allegedly fishing in Subburaj, said in Rameswaram that dia. There was also widespread Sri Lankan Navy on charges of vi- Ten of the fishermen belonged Lankan waters. In another incident the arrested fishermen have now anger last month when the first olating the International Maritime to Akkaraipettai and the rest were on the same day, the navy person- been lodged in a Jaffna prison. secretary at the Saudi embassy Boundary Line this morning, Fish- from Keechankuppam, he said. nel also chased a group of fisher- Earlier they were produced in left India under diplomatic im- eries Department officials said. The fishermen were arrested men at gun point near Katchathee- a court at Paruthithurai and the munity after being accused of Their two boats were also when they were fishing in Palk vu in Palk Staits besides damaging magistrate remanded them till Oc- holding captive and raping two seized by the navy personnel, Straits. The navy had on Septem- nets of more than 60 boats. tober 23, he said. Nepalese maids in his home. The UK fears fresh attacks on The UK has issued a new alert Westerners in Bangladesh and those for Britons in Bangladesh The UK can be “indiscriminate” in nature, has issued a new alert for Britons it says in an updated travel advice in Bangladesh “The travel advice for Britons. has been amended to reflect the India risks backsliding on success “There is a high threat from continued high threat from terror- placent to the success," he said. terrorism. Further attacks target- ism in Bangladesh and the risk of "If we have to achieve the new goal ing Westerners may occur,” sum- further attacks targeting Western- of ending AIDS by 2030, you have marised its new alert on Bangladesh ers.” against HIV, UN envoy says to commit more resources." In on Friday. “There are no changes to the Mumbai, It came after the government’s parts of Bangladesh to which we Manoj Jani, project director of assurance to ensure highest secu- advise against travel,” the spokes- NEW DELHI: New HIV infections ing, all the good work that has been targeting sex workers averted 3 ing collected. Under the new fund- an organization working with sex rity for the foreigners living in person said. in India could rise for the first time done will be washed away," said million infections with HIV, the ing arrangement, states are given a workers under the AIDS pro- Bangladesh after the murder of an “The safety of British nation- in more than a decade because Rao, who said he based his view virus that causes AIDS, between larger share of centrall taxes but gramme, said his 23 staff were de- Italian in the diplomatic zone, and als abroad is a major concern for states are mismanaging a preven- on interactions with several feder- 1995 and 2015. Still, UNAIDS are no longer obliged to earmark moralized because they have not a Japanese in a northern district. the FCO. tion programme by delaying pay- al and state AIDS officials in the estimates India accounted for most funds for social schemes. Rao said been paid for four months. AIDS Special security measures have “We, therefore, attach great ments to health workers, the Unit- last six months. Health workers of the 340,000 new infections in the flow of funds has improved tests have been curtailed. "Work- been taken in the diplomatic zone. importance to providing informa- ed Nations envoy for AIDS in Asia left unpaid Reuters reported in the Asia-Pacific region last year. marginally in recent months after ers are not able to travel for testing However, reached for comment tion about personal safety and se- and the Pacific said. March that government data and India's last nationwide AIDS esti- complaints from AIDS workers, activities due to funding issues," over the latest alert by the UK, curity overseas, including an as- India's efforts to fight HIV letters obtained under right to in- mates were released in 2012. Data but he urged states and politicians Jani said. "We never thought we Home Minister Asaduzzaman sessment of the level of threat from have for years centred around com- formation legislation showed state for the next assessment is still be- to do more. "We are getting com- would see such a day." Khan Kamal on Friday told terrorism, to enable people to make munity-based programmes run for treasuries were delaying payments bdnews24.com: “We’ve covered informed decisions about travel,” people at high risk of contracting and thousands of health workers every side to ensure their safety. the spokesperson said. the virus, such as sex workers and had gone unpaid for months. In There is no lacking.” The travel alert read: “There injecting drug users. The results letters seen by Reuters, some We will secure every inch of Balochistan Japanese national Kunio is considered to be a heightened won praise globally — annual new states have cited a lack of clarity Hoshi was murdered on Oct 3 at a threat of terrorist attack globally infections fell consistently and, about how much they need to con- and develop the province: Nisar Rangpur suburb in a similar way against UK interests and British overall, were reduced by more than tribute to the programme under the Italian aid worker Cesare Tavella nationals, from groups or individ- half between 2000 and 2011. new arrangement as a reason for QUETTA: Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan vowed to secure was gunned down on Sep 28 in uals motivated by the conflict in But Prime Minister Narendra delayed payments, and overall every part of Balochistan and develop the province on Saturday, saying Dhaka’s diplomatic heart. Iraq and Syria. Modi in February cut the central shortage of funds. Experts and that the security of the country was linked to the state of peace and The Islamic State has report- “You should be vigilant at this AIDS budget by a fifth and asked state health officials also blame stability in Balochistan. Addressing the passing-out ceremony of the edly claimed responsibility for time,” the UK authorities warned. states to fill the gap, even though delays on slow bureaucratic pro- 57th batch of Frontier Corps (FC) Balochistan in Loralai, he said: “No- both murders, but the government They advised nationals to keep their poorly-run bureaucracies cesses. An official at the federal body should have any misconceptions...the state will secure every inch says it did not find any such link. “a low profile in all public spaces were already slow in releasing funds AIDS control department, part of of Balochistan and develop the province." The future of Pakistan and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and limit your attendance at events to their AIDS prevention units. the health ministry that oversees Balochistan lies together, the minister asserted, adding that the security said it was a planned way to de- where Westerners may gather, for As a result, staff salaries have the programme, said delays in of the country was connected with peace and stability in Balochistan. stabilise the country, pointing the example in hotels or conference been delayed for months and pre- states disbursing funds were still "The province will be developed and all ulterior motives of the enemy finger at the Jamaat-e-Islami forc- centres”. vention activities have slowed widespread, with payments in will be thwarted," vowed Nisar. He hailed FC personnel for their sacri- es as the execution of some high- “You should be particularly down. some cases three months late. The fices, valour and resolve to safeguard the country. Drawing attention of profile war criminals was looming. vigilant, consider your movements The decision was part of a AIDS control department official the passing-out cadets, he said: “Your role is not only to fight terrorism, The government, however, as- carefully and take appropriate se- wider strategy to decentralize so- said there was a risk of a rise in but also to win the hearts of the people." “The entire world has its eyes sured Dhaka-based diplomats that curity precautions.” cial spending and focus central gov- new infections if the delays con- on this region due to its resources,” he noted. “But this land belongs to it will leave no stone unturned to Elite police force RAB Direc- ernment resources on building tinue, but added such a scenario the Baloch and to Pakistan.” He concluded his speech by paying tribute ensure their security. tor General Col Ziaul Ahsan told roads and railways to boost eco- was at least a year away. The to "over 650 martyrs of the FC who laid their lives for the motherland". It is not clear what prompted bdnews24.com on Friday night nomic growth. In an interview with health ministry did not respond to “We are indebted to these brave sons of soil,” the minister said. Pakistani a fresh fear of terrorism threat. they were “working day and night” Reuters, the UN secretary gener- Reuters' requests for comment on security forces, striving to restore peace across the Balochistan, often Reached for comment, the Brit- to ensure security of the foreign- al's special envoy for AIDS in Asia- Rao's remarks. India's free HIV/ engage with militants in parts of the province. Pakistan accuses neigh- A number of Baloch insurgents ish High Commission spokesper- ers across the country. Pacific, JVR Prasada Rao, warned AIDS drugs programme, launched boring arch-rival India of sponsoring militants groups in Balochistan and have also surrendered to the gov- son told bdnews24.com they did “We are very alert.” "primitive" management by states more than two decades ago, has other parts of country, of which it provided evidences to the United ernment in recent months, narrat- not advise against travel to Bang- He said they would try to find would "ruin the programme". been highly successful. The World Nations (UN) secretary general during the 70th session of the UN Gen- ing the tale of how they were mis- ladesh. out why the UK was concerned. "When the new infections start ris- Bank estimates India's policy of eral Assembly in New York, earlier this month. led. This document was created with Win2PDF available at http://www.win2pdf.com. The unregistered version of Win2PDF is for evaluation or non-commercial use only. This page will not be added after purchasing Win2PDF. 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China completes construction of lighthouses in disputed South China Sea SHANGHAI : China has com- ANKARA : At least 30 people Syria and Kurdistan Workers Par- pro-Kurdish activists. An angry pleted the construction of two were killed when twin explosions ty (PKK) bases in northern Iraq. crowd booed and threw bottles lighthouses in the disputed hit a rally of pro-Kurdish and left- It has also rounded up hundreds when the health and interior min- South China Sea, the official ist activists outside Ankara's main of suspected Kurdish and Islamist isters arrived in a convoy at the Xinhua news agency reported, train station on Saturday in what militants at home. Saturday's at- scene, and they were quickly driv- as tensions in the region mount Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan tacks came as expectation mount- en away. Some activists saw the over Beijing's maritime ambi- called a terrorist attack, weeks ed that PKK militants would an- hand of the state in all three at- tions. A completion ceremony ahead of an election. nounce a unilateral ceasefire, effec- tacks on Kurdish interests, accus- was held for the lighthouses on A Reuters reporter saw bod- tively restoring a truce that col- ing Erdogan and the ruling AK Par- Cuateron Reef and Johnson ies covered by flags and banners, lapsed in July. The government had ty of seeking to stir up nationalist South Reef in the Spratly is- including those of the pro-Kurdi- already dismissed the anticipated sentiment, a charge Turkey's lead- lands, Xinhua said late on Fri- sh opposition Peoples' Democratic move as an election gambit to bol- ers have vehemently rejected. "Su- day. The United States and the Party (HDP), with bloodstains and ster the HDP, whose success at ruc, Diyarbakir and now Ankara, Philippines have opposed the body parts scattered on the June elections had helped erode the all works of murderer Erdogan. We construction.China claims most road."Like other terror attacks, the ruling AK party's majority. Hours will tear down that palace," said a of the energy-rich South China one at the Ankara train station tar- after the bombing, the PKK an- 21-year-old university student, Sea, through which $5 trillion gets our unity, togetherness, broth- nounced it was ordering fighters Tarik, who had been less than 50 in ship-borne trade passes ev- erhood and future," Erdogan said to halt operations in Turkey un- meters from one of Saturday's ery year, and the Philippines, in a statement, calling for "solidar- less they faced attack. It said, blasts. Pockets of activists still at Vietnam, Malaysia, Taiwan and ity and determination". through the Firat news website, the scene chanted "Murderer Er- Brunei have overlapping Witnesses said the two explo- that its fighters would avoid acts dogan" and "the murderer AKP will claims. China said on Friday it sions happened seconds apart which could prevent a "fair and just give account". The Interior Minis- would not stand for violations shortly after 1000 a.m. as hun- election" being held on Nov. 1. try said 30 people were killed and of its territorial waters in the dreds gathered for a planned march Footage screened by broadcaster 126 wounded. Authorities were in- name of freedom of navigation, to protest over a conflict between CNN Turk showed a line of young vestigating claims Saturday's at- as the United States considers Turkish security forces and Kurd- men and women holding hands and tacks were carried out by suicide sailing warships to waters in- ish militants in the southeast. "I dancing, and then flinching as a large bombers, two government officials side the 12-nautical-mile zones heard one big explosion first and explosion flashed behind them, told Reuters. Prime Minister Ah- around islands it has built in tried to cover myself as the win- where people had gathered carry- met Davutoglu canceled his next the Spratly chain. Washington dows broke. Right away there was ing HDP and leftist party banners. three days of election campaign- has signaled it does not recog- the second one," said Serdar, 37, "We are faced with a very big mas- ing and held an emergency meeting nize Beijing's sovereignty over ish terror," CHP opposition lead- security forces in the predominant- by Russian warplanes. who was working at a newspaper sacre, a vicious, barbarous attack," with the heads of police and intel- the several islands China has er Kemal Kilicdaroglu, whose par- ly Kurdish southeast. Hundreds Those involved in Saturday's stand in the train station. "There HDP leader Selahattin Demirtas ligence agencies. Renewed conflict built on reefs in the Spratly ar- ty is seen as a potential coalition have since died. march tended the wounded lying was shouting and crying and I told reporters. He drew a parallel in the southeast since July's col- chipelago and says the U.S. partner for the ruling AK Party Turkey's problems have been on the ground, as hundreds of stayed under the newspapers for with the bombing of an HDP rally lapse of the two-year-old cease- navy will continue to operate after the election, told reporters in compounded over the last week by stunned people wandered around a while. I could smell burnt flesh." in the southeastern city of Di- fire, had raised questions over how wherever international law al- comments broadcast live. Violence Russia's launching of air strikes in the streets. Some rushed to hospi- But the NATO member has been yarbakir on the eve of the last elec- Turkey can hold a free and fair elec- lows. The issue is central to between the state and the PKK has neighboring Syria that could fur- tals, where crowds gathered to in a heightened state of alert since tion in June and a suicide bombing tion in violence-hit areas but the increasingly tense relations be- escalated in recent months, with ther swell a refugee population of donate blood. Bodies lay in two starting a "synchronized war on blamed on Islamic State in the town government has so far said the vote tween the United States and Ankara launching air strikes on over two million on Turkish soil. circles around 20 meters apart terror" in July, including air strikes of Suruc near the Syrian border in will go ahead. "We're ready to come China, the world's two largest militant camps in response to what Turkey has protested to Moscow where the explosions appeared to against Islamic State fighters in July, which killed 33 mostly young together and work sincerely to fin- economies. Beijing has said it said were rising attacks on the over incursions into its air space have taken place. construction in the region is to help maritime search and res- cue, disaster relief, environmen- tal protection and navigational US is an immigrant nation, Syria rebels security. It has also said it will continue to build other instal- lations to better serve countries in the region and vessels navi- should welcome refugees: Kerry battle to gating those waters.

Isolated North U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry rebuked those reverse ISIL Korea says ready opposed to welcoming Syrian refugees on Friday, insisting that immigrants built and defined America as for war with US a nation. Speaking at an event at the State Depart- ment to mark Global Diaspora Week, Kerry dismissed gains in Aleppo as it marks calls for the United States to seal its borders to out- anniversary siders. “Immigrants built America and immigrants Rebels have battled to reverse an campaign in Syria on September continue to make America what it is today,” he de- Islamic State in Iraq and the Le- 30, saying it was targeting ISIL and clared, to applause from delegates celebrating immi- vant (ISIL) group advance on Syr- other "terrorist" groups. PYONGYANG : Isolated grant communities. Kerry defended the decision to ia's Aleppo, as Washington said it But US officials and Syrian North Korea marked the 70th increase the number of refugees the United States will would resume talks with Moscow rebels have said the strikes have anniversary of its ruling Work- admit from around the world next year to 100,000, to avoid accidents in the skies over hit "moderate" fighters for the ers' Party on Saturday with a including 10,000 Syrians. “It is rightly a point of the war-torn country. most part and are aimed at shoring massive military parade over- pride that the American people have a history of Russia on Saturday continued up Assad's embattled government seen by leader Kim Jong Un, welcoming those who are in urgent need of a safe its aerial campaign in Syria, launch- and troops. Many of the rebel who said his country was haven,” he said. “That’s part of who we are. It’s the ing dozens of air strikes against groups hit by the Russian air ready to fight any war waged American DNA. It’s how most of this country came what it said were ISIL targets. In strikes are also at war with ISIL. by the United States. Thou- to be here.” Some in America, in particular conserva- the northern province of Aleppo, Moscow has also been accused by sands of troops stood at at- tive candidates for the Republican presidential nom- rebels including the powerful Ahr- activists on the ground that its tention under a blue autumn ination, have condemned plans to admit more refu- ar al-Sham group on Saturday re- warplanes were hitting civilian ar- sky in Pyongyang's main Kim gees. There have been particular concerns about mi- captured one of several villages eas in Syria. Human Rights Watch Il Sung Square, named after grants fleeing the wars in Syria and Iraq, amid con- seized by ISIL in its advance a day on Friday said that a suspected Kim Jong Un's grandfather and cerns that militant infiltrators will be among them. earlier, a monitor said. The Brit- Russian air strikes on the central the founder of the nation, as But President Barack Obama has ordered his govern- ain-based Syrian Observatory for town of Talbiseh on September 30 Kim, appearing relaxed and ment to speed up the process of accepting Syrian Human Rights said rebels were bat- killed at least 17 civilians and confident, made his speech, refugees, amid a humanitarian crisis in Europe and the tling to take back a second village wounded 72, adding that the inci- leaning heavily on the lectern. Middle East. from ISIL, which is now within 20 dent should be investigated for The young leader was accom- kilometres of Aleppo city. ISIL possible violations of the laws of panied by senior Chinese advances on Aleppo despite Rus- war. The Russian campaign has Communist Party official Liu sia air strikes The ISIL offensive complicated the efforts of the US- Yunshan, with whom he was has brought the group closer than led coalition carrying out strikes seen speaking throughout the ever to Aleppo, threatening to fur- against ISIL in Syria. The Penta- event and occasionally shared ther complicate the situation in gon on Friday said it would resume laughs, and flanked by senior Syria's second city which has long talks with Moscow aimed at pre- North Korean party and mili- Russian air been divided between government venting military accidents in Syri- tary officials. "The party's rev- and rebel control. an airspace after it received a re- olutionary armament means strikes target The regime holds the west of ply to US proposals. we are ready to fight any kind the city, while the rebels hold the Russian planes last weekend of war waged by the U.S. im- western Syria: east, but the situation is largely crossed into Turkish airspace, trig- perialists," reversed in the countryside. gering an immediate protest from Kim said in a speech striking- Monitor The U.N. Security Council wel- yan people." The council also re- U.N. envoy Bernardino Leon, The ISIL advance threatens Turkey and a vow from NATO ly more forceful than previ- comed an agreement reached on iterated that it was "prepared to would set up a new unity govern- both regime and rebel forces in the that it will defend its member na- ous public comments, prais- BEIRUT : Russian jets carried out air strikes on areas in western Syr- Friday to establish a unity gov- sanction those who threaten Lib- ment headed by Fayez el-Sarraj, a city, including a strategic road that tion. A Russian aircraft also came ing the feats of past leaders ernment in Libya, calling on stake- ya's peace, stability and security deputy in the Tripoli parliament, leads from rebel-held Aleppo to the within a few kilometres of an and the ruling party. ia on Saturday and an Islamic State stronghold in the north was rocked holders in the country to support or that undermine the successful and include three deputy prime Turkish border. American drone. The Russians by a large explosion, the Syrian the peace deal. A unanimous state- completion of its political transi- ministers, one each from the west, The battles come amid a wave have complained about the narrow One-year old boy Observatory for Human Rights ment passed by the 15 members tion." It encouraged the U.N. mis- east and south of the country. It of intense Russian air strikes that scope of the US talks, and Rus- monitoring group said. Russia, a of the council called on all Libyans sion in Libya (UNSMIL) to help would seek to end the political tur- have targeted fighters trying to sian Deputy Defence Minister dies on migrant top ally of Syrian President Bashar "to unite wholeheartedly and in a coordinate international assistance moil that has existed since August topple President Bashar al-Assad, Anatoly Antonov said Moscow boat from al-Assad, started bombing in Syr- spirit of reconciliation behind this to the government that would be 2014, when a militia alliance that and a ground offensive by the Syr- wants broad discussions on inter- ia on Sept. 30 saying it was target- settlement, which represents the set up under the proposed peace included Islamists overran Tripo- ian army in the country's central national cooperation with the US- Turkey to Greece ing Islamic State militants, a cam- aspirations and hopes of the Lib- accord. The accord, brokered by li. region. Russia began its bombing led coalition fighting ISIL. paign that has drawn Moscow A one-year-old boy has died deeper into Syria's more than four- after a boat carrying migrants year conflict. UN backs EU military action against human traffickers to the Greek island of Lesbos Rebels on the ground and West- from Turkey began sinking ern states have said Moscow's air The United Nations Security during the night, the ministry campaign, which has been com- Council has authorised European of shipping said Friday. It said bined with ground attacks by pro- naval operations to seize and dis- the child was on board a din- government forces, have mainly pose of vessels operated by hu- ghy with 55 others, who said targeted rebel groups not associat- man traffickers in the high seas off they were Syrians, when the ed with Islamic State, including Libya. The 15-member council vessel began to take on water U.S.-trained fighters. Russian adopted on Friday the British- as it approached the shore of drafted resolution with 14 votes Lesbos. He was found uncon- strikes hit northern areas of Latakia province, the coastal heartland of in favour. Venezuela abstained. Al scious by a coast guard patrol Jazeera's James Bay, reporting boat, and medics were unable Assad's Alawite minority sect, as well as northern areas of Hama from the UN, said there has been a to revive him. The others on lot of negotiations about this reso- board were rescued unharmed. province further east, the Syrian The ministry had no informa- Observatory for Human Rights lution and this was the final ver- tion on the boy's parents.The said. There was no immediate in- sion. "It has been supported by all coast guard also intervened formation on casualties. The Ob- the Security Council except Vene- twice during the night in the servatory says Islamic State has zuela which abstained saying that same region to rescue groups no real presence in these areas. this was a militarisation of the ef- of 48 and 70 migrants on board However, there were other mili- forts to deal with the refugees in boats that were taking on wa- tants in northern Syria, such as the Mediterranean. "What this res- ter, the ministry said. Between Chechens, that Russia might want olution does is it authorises a Eu- Thursday and Friday morning, to take out. Syrian state television ropean naval force that will oper- some 2,000 migrants reached said in a newsflash that attacks ate in the high seas of the coast of the shores of Lesbos, which carried out by government forces Libya. This is only limited to the due to its location not far from in the area had killed and wounded problem of people coming from the Turkish coast has become a number of "terrorists", a term it Libya towards Europe. "But that the chief arrival point for the uses to describe all insurgents in is not just the big problem itself migrants in Greece.Some 800 Syria. The Observatory said a large the figures from the International of them crossed during the explosion hit a building on the out- Organisation of Migration (IOM) night, the most dangerous time skirts of the town of al-Bab in suggests that 2,988 people have of day. More than 550,000 mi- northern Syria, which is held by died making that journey this year. grants and refugees have the ultra-hardline Islamic State. It It is a serious problem and the EU to be in international waters, but to come into the territorial waters in Libya and come on shore to destroy the boats of the people smugglers - but crossed into Europe by sea so was not immediately clear what governments who pushed this say that is not in this resolution". Record number of refugees On Friday, Libyan authorities arrested almost 300 people preparing to board boats to far this year, most fleeing the caused the blast in the building, that this should save lives. "It is Europe. The men have been transferred to a detention centre in the capital, Tripoli. Libya has for years been a stepping-stone for refugees, mostly civil war in Syria and the vast which Islamic State had used to worth remembering that, original- from sub-Saharan Africa, but also Syria and other Middle Eastern countries seeking to travel to Europe. The IOM in a report released in September, majority arriving in Greece. store explosives, according to the ly, the talks were on a resolution said 522,124 people had travelled by sea to reach European countries. About 388,000 have entered via Greece, and more than 175,000 of the total Britain-based Observatory. would allow the EU force not only came from Syria - the largest single refugee source as a country. This document was created with Win2PDF available at http://www.win2pdf.com. The unregistered version of Win2PDF is for evaluation or non-commercial use only. This page will not be added after purchasing Win2PDF. SUNDAY .OCTOBER 11, 2015 AFGHANISTANTIMES

We a r e a n a t ion a l in st it u t ion a n d n ot t h e voice of a gov t or a p r iva t e or ga n iza t ion AFGHANISTAN TIMES Editor: Abdul Saboor Sarir By Martin Schram we were being told, day by day: ty” and “did report that they, them- cantly. He told a Senate Armed Ser- Phone No: +93-772364666 Day 1, Oct. 3: A U.S. military selves, were coming under attack. vices Committee hearing the air- E-mail: [email protected] For four days this month, the Pen- spokesperson in Afghanistan is- That much I think we can safely strike resulted from “a U.S. deci- tagon’s top generals and civilian sued a deliberately minimalist re- say.” Well, no we can’t. Top gen- sion made within the U.S. chain of bosses frantically shifted verbs, port: “U.S. forces conducted an erals now doubt U.S. forces were command.” Other Pentagon offi- Email: [email protected] tenses and explanations like fren- airstrike in Kunduz city at 2:15 under attack from within the hos- cials reportedly said Campbell zied truckers grinding their gears a.m. (local) Oct. 3 against individ- pital. Day 3, Monday: Gen. John now believes no Afghan or U.S. www.afghanistantimes.af on a perilous mountain road with uals threatening the force. The Campbell, commander of U.S. troops were under severe threat Photojournalist: M. Sadiq Yusufi no guardrails. Careening through strike may have resulted in collat- forces in Afghanistan, briefed Pen- from the hospital facility. And the twists and turns, climbs and plung- eral damage to a nearby medical tagon reporters and uttered two general was now described as be- Advisory editorial board es, the generals and their bosses facility. This incident is under in- preposterous assertions. First, he lieving Special Operations Forces struggled to keep their runaway vestigation.” “Collateral damage” tried to blame the Afghan military that called for the airstrike failed Saduddin Shpoon, Dr. Sharif Fayez, Dr. Sultana Parvanta, Dr. Sharifa Sharif, rigs rolling through an endless fog. — the understatement led Ameri- for calling in the U.S. airstrike on to have “eyes on” the target, as Worse yet, this was a fog of their ca’s media to bury the news. Day the hospital. Second, he bizarrely required by U.S. rules of military Dr. Omar Zakhilwal, Setara Delawari, Ahmad Takal own making. And they knew they 2, Sunday: Hospital officials in described the slaughter of what we engagement, and also failed to fol- only made it worse every time Kunduz noisily spread the shock- now know was 22 innocents as low other requirements. A new in- Graphic-Designers: they misspoke. Back home, we ing truth — at least 19 were killed, merely “several” civilians. “We ternal Pentagon investigation has Mansoor Faizy and Edriss Akbari quickly realized some sort of sick- including three children. They have now learned that on Oct. 3, begun. So it was that, for four days, ening tragedy happened Oct. 3 at blamed a U.S. airstrike. United Afghan forces advised that they we were bombarded by a blizzard Marketing & Advertising: a charity hospital in Kunduz, Af- Nations Secretary-General Ban were taking fire from enemy posi- of official lies. But we don’t yet Mohammad Parwiz Arian, 0708954626, 0778894038 ghanistan. A U.S. gunship launched Ki-moon demanded a “thorough tions and asked for air support know whether we were the only an airstrike to help Afghan ground and impartial investigation.” Final- from U.S. forces,” Campbell said. ones being deceived. Were Ameri- Mailing address: P.O. Box: 371, Kabul, Afghanistan troops retake the city they’d stun- ly it was Page 1, prime-time news “An air strike was then called to ca’s top generals and their civilian Our Bank Accounts: Azizi Bank: 000101100258091 / 000101200895656 ningly lost to Taliban forces. But everywhere. Defense Secretary eliminate the Taliban threat and bosses also being misled by their multiple airstrikes decimated a Ashton Carter spoke with report- several civilians were accidentally subordinates? Printed at Afghanistan Times Printing Press sprawling Doctors Without Bor- ers while flying to Spain. (Note: struck.” It is incomprehensible that Perhaps this was the week ders hospital, killing 22 doctors, I’ve known Carter for years as a an intelligent general would de- when the Pentagon’s top brass was staff, patients and children, and Harvard expert who is wise and scribe such carnage in such under- caught in a rare command updraft The constitution says wounding dozens more. It was one scrupulously honest.) Carter em- stated terms. When that has hap- — a blizzard of lies that may have of the worst civilian disasters of phasized that he only had “early pened in decades and wars past, it swept out of Afghanistan and right Article 57: the long and long-troubled Afghan facts” that “can be misleading.” He usually signaled a government or up America’s military chain of war. Yet, for days afterward, in a confirmed American forces were military atrocity was in the pro- command.—(Las Vegas Sun) The state shall guarantee the rights and liberties of foreign citizens in crisis that cried out for clarity, we involved in some sort of “air ac- cess of being covered up. Day 4, Martin Schram, a columnist Afghanistan in accordance with the law. These people shall be obliged to were fogged in by official misin- tion” in Kunduz. And important- Tuesday: Gen. Campbell, perhaps for Tribune News Service, is a vet- respect the laws of the state of Afghanistan within the limits of the formation about how and why the ly, he said “American forces there sensing his failings of the day be- eran Washington journalist, author provisions of international law. atrocity happened. Here’s what were engaged in the general vicini- fore, shifted explanations signifi- and TV documentary executive. Khan and Haji Sahib of Turangzai for educating the children of poor The Khorasan of ideas and common people in the early 20th century as a means for social Afrasiab Khattak achieving progress in the region. various challenges faced by Mus- empowerment. He added examples An eight member Pakistani dele- lim women in their countries or of social movements like the one Situated at the point of convergence gation comprising of people from area of study and the experiences led by Abdu Rahim Popalzai for of ancient Iran and Turan (the diverse social backgrounds partic- of the struggle of women in facing organising sweepers in Pakhtunkh- Turkic world) Herat, a city in west- ipated in the conference. The Pa- them. Issues like child marriage, wa and the other led by Moulana ern Afghanistan, epitomises the kistan delegation was led by Mr. exclusion of women from decision Bashani for using indigenous ex- SCO membership rich ancient culture of Central and Raoof Hassan, the head of an Is- making processes and using reli- perience and religious arguments West Asia. Herat or Hairava, as lamabad based NGO, Regional gious extremism to reinforce pa- to mobilise peasants. He described Despite having key place in South, Central and East Asia security mentioned in Avesta (the holy Peace Initiative, that has facilitat- triarchal traditions were flagged as Sufism as social technology that book of Zoroastrianism) is, accord- ed bilateral Track 2 dialogue be- common. The Italian social scien- mobilised the oppressed through and politics, Afghanistan has not received full membership of the ing to Afghan historians, derived tween the civil society represen- tist shared her study on Central spiritual logic against oppressive Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO). Take it as a failure of from Aria or Ariana , the ancient tatives of Pakistan and Afghani- Asian women’s experience of us- hierarchies by equating colonial- kingdom flourishing about 1500 stan over the last few years Actu- ing folklore and spirituality for ism, feudalism and absolutism with the Afghan officials or members of the SCO, but Afghanistan should B.C. The area formed a rout for ally a bilateral dialogue did take defending their rights. Saliha Bin ‘Nafs-e-Amara’. He thought most have been member of the organization long ago, because the long- the armies of Cyrus and Darius of place between the two countries Ali, whose son was killed by join- of such movements faced setbacks Achaemenid Empire. In 330 B.C. after the international conference). ing extremist militancy, is helping at the hands of theory and prac- troubled Afghan war has also created challenges for the neighbor- Alexander the Great turned it into Scholars, experts and intellec- families in saving their children tice related to statism. The poetry ing countries. Stability, security and prosperity of the region de- Alexandria Ariorum after conquer- tuals from fifty countries took part from the influence of religious ex- of Jalalabad-u-Din Balkhi (Roumi) ing it. Herat acquired fame as an in the two-day conference. In eight tremism. Both the speakers had was widely quoted, recited and pend on Afghanistan. If Kabul was stable the regional countries will urban centre in 11th century in Is- sessions spread over two days, interesting case studies to share. sung with music through out the live in peace and harmony; otherwise, violence would spell disas- lamic Khorasan that would retain dozens of speakers discussed There was a consensus on the need conference. We know that some of its cultural significance for centu- themes like ‘Moral & Political Di- for women empowerment as a pre- his poetry and thought can be con- ries despite the ruptures brought mensions’, ‘State and Challenges requisite for a renaissance in Mus- ters in the neighborhood. demned and rejected by the con- about by devastating invasions. It of Muslim Women’, ‘Islam and the lim countries. In a situation of prolonged war and instability, the SCO member produced scholars like Khwaja Rest, Confrontation’, ‘Misunder- Another session that attract- temporary ideologues of Wa- Abdullah Ansari and poets like standing and Dialogue’, ‘Afghani- ed particular interest was about habism and Salfism. But the Maul- states have focused too narrowly on security of Afghanistan. Amir Ali She’r Nawai who are a stan’s Transformation Decade ( some indigenous concepts, prac- ana’s poetry is still deeply rooted Though, regional stability had grabbed attention of the organization source of pride for the city even 2002-2014) Opportunities & Ob- tices of South Asia and their con- in Central and West Asia apart from today. It represents the history of stacles’, ‘Media, Education & Law temporary relevance. Dr Sayed also having a universal appeal. but the members played no or little role in stability of the war-hit the ancient east that was rich in ‘, ‘Herat School, Concepts, Prac- Akbar Shah from Jamia Milia Del- After participating in the con- country. Cooperation in security, economic and humanitarian areas science, arts and culture. Thus, it tices & Contemporary Relevance’, hi enumerated commonalities ference one could not help feeling was not surprising to see Herat as and last but not the least ‘The Way among the mystic traditions of dif- the disconnect that Pakistan has remained low. Result of this cold-shoulder response is increase in a venue for the conference on “Is- Forward’. ferent eastern religions. Speaking developed during the last few de- insurgency and emergence of the Islamic State in Afghanistan. If lamic Civilisation; Stagnation and There was broad support for in chaste Persian, he pointed out cades with the rich cultural tradi- Renaissance”. synthesising tradition with moder- that originally religion was there tion of Central and South Asia by the SCO had granted full membership to Afghanistan and support- The conference held on Octo- nity, promoting dialogue between to save humans. But after the rise over gravitating towards the Mid- ber 2 and 3 was hosted by a non- civilisations, strengthening toler- of certain distortions a perception dle East. And alas, even from the ed the country in security and economic spheres, the situation on governmental organisation, the ance by getting inspiration from is created where humans are sup- Middle Eastern traditions the the ground would have been very different now. There would have Afghan Institute for Strategic Stud- Sufi tradition and encouraging posed to be there for saving reli- choice of our religious hierarchy ies. Actually it was a part of the Muslims to excel in modern sci- gions. Dr. James Caron, Professor has not been the ‘Uloom’ (scienc- been more jobs, created by inter and intra-regional projects such as Herat Security Dialogue held ev- ences. Some of the sessions were SOAS London presented interest- es) but retrogression. Iqbal had TAPI gas pipeline, uniformity in stand against extremism and ter- ery year for the last four years by particularly impressive. In session ing study of sociopolitical move- rightly pointed out the gravity of the aforementioned organisation. on ‘The State & Challenges of ments informed by indigenous so- the situation in the development rorism and enhanced border cooperation. Improved border coop- At first sight it appeared a bit Muslim Women’ all the four speak- cial experience and the idea of spir- of nations when they are afraid to strange to see a nexus between the ers, Ambassador Fauzia Nasreen ituality. Of particular interest was embrace new ways of life and tend eration is not only needed to prevent insurgents from crossing the theme for the current year’s con- from Pakistan, Ms. Nahid Farid his analysis of the Bacha Khan led to cling to the beaten path. frontiers but also the narcotics and human traffickers. Drastic in- ference in the format of security MP from Afghanistan, Ms. Kudai Khidmatgar (Servants of (These are my impressions of dialogue. But the thrust of the con- Alessandra Fiorentini a social sci- God) Movement that mobilised a the proceedings of the conference. crease in opium production has been reported last year. The pro- ference was to underline the sig- entist from Italy and Saliha Bin Ali, large portion of the population on The official and more authentic duction will continue to increase if heed was not paid. The problem nificance of the cultural factor in a Belgian of Syrian origin enlight- the idea of selfless service. He also report will be published by the organisers). could not be resolved through pledges but practical steps are need- the maintenance of peace and ened the audience by pointing out threw light on the efforts of Bacha ed. Unfortunately, the steps are not taken yet. Lack of cooperation among the SCO members is clearly visible. That’s why China is upset by growing extremism in Xinjiang. Like- wise, Russia and Central Asian Republics are in panic due to grow- ing power of the Islamic State in the neighborhood. Furthermore, insecurity in Afghanistan is hampering important regional projects. These all are the outcomes of disheartening performance of the SCO and absence of coordination between the members. Since the situation in the region had taken an ugly turn. There- fore, the cooperation organization should review its policies and focus on coordination and joint efforts in the areas of security, economic, culture, education, health and others. 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SUNDAY .OCTOBER 11, 2015 AFGHANISTANTIMES A GREECE A changing of the guard in Algiers without illusions By Hannah Armstrong By Yanis Varoufakis Tsipras is attempting to Rivalry between President Ab- erect two lines of defence delaziz Bouteflika and his vet- The costliest minor govern- against the coming tsunami of eran head of intelligence, Gen- ment reshuffle in Greece’s his- pain (and thereby minimise eral Mohamed Mediene, has tory.” That is at least one way popular discontent). The first to describe the result of the line is to press the troika to make long informed Algerians' under- Greek general election on Sep- good on its promise to enter standing of the opaque politics tember 20. Indeed, with few ex- into debt-relief negotiations of their country. Any change ceptions, the same ministers once its recessionary agenda in the balance of power, the have returned to the same of- has been fully implemented. sages predicted, would un- fices as part of an administra- The second line of defence is leash a struggle. tion backed by the same odd based on the promise of a “par- Instead, there has been a pair of parties (the left-wing allel” agenda aimed at amelio- visible - if perplexing - stability Syriza and the smaller right- rating the worst effects of the wing Independent Greeks), troika programme. But both since early September, when which received only a slightly lines are porous, at best, given Bouteflika abruptly sacked lower share of the vote than the the harsh realities of Greece’s Mohamed Mediene, 75, the previous administration. economic circumstances. world's longest serving spy But the appearance of con- There is little doubt that the chief. The Algerian president, tinuity is misleading. While the Greek government will gain 78, was elected for a fourth term percentage of voters backing some debt relief. An unpayable in 2014, despite not appearing the government is relatively debt is, one way or another, a in public since he suffered a unchanged — 0.6 million of the haircut. But Greece’s creditors 6.1 million Greeks who voted in have already had two haircuts, crippling stroke the previous the July 5 referendum on con- first in the spring of 2012, and year. tinued “extend-and-pretend” another that December. Alas, "I no longer understand loans with stringent austerity those haircuts, while substan- anything about Algeria," con- strings attached did not turn tial, were too little, too late, and fessed a college professor, out. The loss of so many vot- too toxic in terms of their finan- shortly after spotting Said ers in little more than two cial and legal parameters. Bouteflika, the president's months reflects the electorate’s The question facing the brother and powerful right dramatic change in mood — Tsipras government is thus from passionate to glum. whether the next haircut will be hand, casually drive down the The shift reflects the man- more therapeutic than the last. highway with no escort. date that Prime Minister Alexis To help the Greek economy Mediene's departure from Tsipras sought and gained. heal, debt relief must be both the scene is part of the deep Last January, when I stood with sizeable and a lever for elimi- and relatively silent changes him, we asked voters to back nating most of the new auster- taking place in Algeria as a new our determination to end the ity measures, which merely generation slowly starts to re- “extend-and-pretend” bailouts guarantee another spin of the place the ageing veterans of that had pushed Greece into a debt-deflation cycle. More pre- the liberation war. Since 2013, black hole and operated as the cisely, debt reduction must be template for austerity policies accompanied by a reduction in Bouteflika and his army chief across Europe. The govern- the target for the medium-term of staff, Gaid Salah, have ment that was returned on Sep- primary budget surplus, from sacked a half-dozen generals tember 20 has the opposite the current 3.5 per cent of gross close to the former intelligence mandate: To implement an “ex- domestic product to no more chief. Power grab? Some inter- tend-and-pretend” bailout pro- than 1.5 per cent. Nothing else pret this as a power grab, but it gramme — indeed, the most can allow the Greek economy is better to see it as an effort to toxic variant ever. to recover. professionalise the armed forc- The new Tsipras adminis- Is anything like this politi- tration knows this. Tsipras un- cally possible? One clue recent- es, promote a greater degree of derstands that his government ly emerged in an article in the civilian control, and deal with the famous words: "I won't be position to protect Algeria from and the Sahel. It opposes for- For Algeria to continue is skating on the thin ice of a Financial Times in which Klaus new security threats in Alge- three-fourths of a president", the Islamic State's push into eign interventions, supports sorting out its internal affairs fiscal programme that cannot Regling, the head of Europe’s ria's neighbourhood since 2011. an allusion to the military's Africa, and is expected to en- territorial integrity, has encour- calmly is not just a domestic succeed and a reform agenda bailout fund, the European Sta- Regional challenges are ris- grasp on civilian leadership hance Algerian leadership in its aged dialogue and compromise necessity: its neighbourhood that his ministers loathe. While bility Mechanism, returned to ing in North Africa and the through much of the 1990s. Maghreb and Sahel neighbour- with Islamists, and is willing to needs it as an anchor in tumul- voters wisely prefer that he and the troika’s mantra that Greece nearby Sahel, with the Islamic hood, one of the state's current cooperate on counterterrorism tuous times. his cabinet, rather than the con- Even so, few Algerians saw does not need substantial debt State worming its way into con- strategic objectives. operations and deradicalisation Hannah Armstrong is Alge- servative opposition, imple- relief. Regling may not be a this latest stage of the genera- ment a programme that an over- major player in his own right, flicts in Libya, Tunisia, and tional change coming. The If the leadership transition campaigns. It has already ria consultant for International whelming majority of Greeks but he never speaks out of turn Mali. Also read: Algerian lead- country is used to an abiding continues without incident, Al- played positive roles in Mali, Crisis Group. The views ex- detest, the reality of the aus- or contradicts the ECB and the er fires powerful army intelli- continuity in the bureaucratic geria, by virtue of its geogra- Libya and Tunisia at a time pressed in this article are the terity agenda will test public pa- German government. gence chief Mediene, known institutions that administer this phy and wealth, may fulfil its when many regional actors author's own and do not nec- tience. Of course, there is the IMF, by his nom-de-guerre "Toufik" secretive North African state. potential to be a boon for the have fragmented or encouraged essarily reflect Al Jazeera's The Tsipras government is whose staff tell anyone willing or, more starkly, as Rab Djaza'ir Economic crisis Many Algeri- stability of both the Maghreb conflict and polarisation. editorial policy. committed to enacting a long to listen that Greek debt must (The Lord of Algeria) was wide- ans fear, however, that the fall list of recessionary measures. be cut by approximately one- ly seen as an all-knowing, all- Three highlight the tax ava- third, or €100 billion (Dh415.99 in oil prices means that their lanche that awaits: More than billion). But if the recent past is powerful head of the KGB-style country is barrelling straight US-Russian confronta- 600,000 farmers will be asked to any guide to the near future, intelligence agency, the DRS. into an economic crisis like that pay additional back taxes for the IMF’s views will be His removal is the coup de of the late 1980s. Officials esti- 2014 and to pre-pay over 50 per trumped. grace in a long-running power mate that the country can keep cent of next year’s estimated This leaves Tsipras with struggle between a regime fac- subsidies and social spending tion in our region tax. Some 700,000 small busi- only his second line of defence: tion centred around Bouteflika at current levels for at most By Abdulrahman al-Rashed that Moscow strives for de- have avoided confronting Ira- nesses (including low-wage The “parallel” programme. The and another - dominant since another two years, risking riots workers who are forced to op- During last Thursday’s U.S. ployment and expansion, im- nians whom have dared to mil- idea here is to demonstrate to the 1990s civil war - around and intense social unrest. erate as private service provid- the electorate that the govern- Senate hearing tackling mili- posing its position and grow- itarily expand in Iraq and Syria; ers) will have to pre-pay 100 per ment can combine capitulation Mediene. So, although the transition tary and political affairs, ex- ing its relations at the expense an expansion that served the cent (yes, you read that right) to the troika with its own agen- Mediene, known by his is proceeding smoothly at perts unanimously agreed that of the United States. During the Russians at the expense of of next year’s taxes. As of next da of reforms, comprising effi- nom-de-guerre 'Toufik' ... was street level, there is much agi- by interfering in Syria, Russia past six years, the U.S. has de- American interests, as we can year, every merchant will face a ciency gains and an assault on widely seen as an all-knowing, tation in public discourse. "I has become a growing danger liberately distanced itself from see it today. 26 per cent turnover tax from the oligarchy that may liberate all-powerful head of the KGB- fear a general collapse," former to the United States in terms the region, especially in Iraq, The U.S. will not be able to the first euro they earn — while funds for the purpose of less- style intelligence agency. Me- Prime Minister Sid Ahmed of influence and interests. the Gulf and Egypt. Washing- militarily confront Russia be- being required to pre-pay in ening austerity’s impact on diene and other generals were Ghozali told a public forum a 2016 a full 75 per cent of their They also agreed that ton has taken further negative cause the legal justifications of weaker Greeks. behind the cancellation of elec- few days ago. Retired General 2017 taxes. This is a worthy project. If Russia is posing a threat to the steps in refusing all appeals such a confrontation are miss- In addition to these ludi- the government can pull it off, tions and the military coup of Hocine Benhadid accused the security of the Middle East. from Arab allies to cooperate ing in the absence of a deci- crous tax hikes (which also in- it is a potential game changer. 1992. His replacement fits into president's brother, Said, of One of the experts described against the massacres commit- sion from the Security Council. clude substantial increases in To succeed, however, the gov- a large-scale restructuring of waging a campaign to break up what is happening as “danger- ted by the Assad regime in Syr- Moreover, the U.S. has not es- sales taxes), the Tsipras gov- ernment will have to slay two the DRS, aiming to strip away all the country's institutions so ous”, recalling that Russia has ia. What made things even tablished a group that can take ernment has agreed to pension dragons at once: The incompe- its powers over domestic poli- as to remain the sole in com- never fought outside its areas worse was when Washington its defense or protect its legiti- cutbacks and fire sales of pub- tence of Greece’s public admin- tics and foreign policy, and re- mand. Former Prime Minister lic assets. Even most reform- istration and the inexhaustible of influence, not even during did nothing when Iran and macy, and the Iraqi government focus it on espionage and Ali Benflis has seized on a doz- the Cold War. Hezbollah sent thousands of is no longer listening to Wash- minded Greeks balk at the agen- resourcefulness of an oligar- counterespionage. da imposed by the “troika” (the en occasions to indict what he Washington’s problem lies fighters to Syria. The Arab al- ington’s objections and will chy that knows how to defend Bouteflika was first elected European Commission, the In- itself — including by forging calls a "power vacuum". in the terrible deal it signed lies of the United States are surely refuse to grant the U.S. ternational Monetary Fund and strong alliances with the troi- in 1999 on a platform of nation- Also read: Eroding Algeria's with Tehran and that has clearly seeing now how the U.S. legitimacy with regards to the the European Central Bank). ka. al reconciliation, promising to political status quo But with turned into a Trojan horse for is begging the Iraqi government Russians on its soil. restore politics to civilians with calm reigning over the country, the Russians. not to reduce its security in Therefore, Washington’s top security officials and for- In fact, the U.S. losses are Baghdad’s green zone, thus re- problem lies in the terrible deal eign diplomats are optimistic. much greater than that. The vealing an American weakness it signed with Tehran and that LETTER TO THE EDITOR Such interpretations spin the current U.S. policy has pushed for the first time since the 1960s. has turned into a Trojan horse DRS restructuring as a poorly its allies like Saudi Arabia, The Americans are military for the Russians since they are messaged modernisation of an Egypt, the UAE and Kuwait to stronger than the Russians, but on the same team as Iran in Iraq ungainly and out-of-control sign military agreements with the politics of the current Amer- and Syria, in addition to coop- security apparatus. Algerian Moscow, which showcases an ican administration have been erating together in different re- President Abdelaziz Bouteflika unprecedented downgrade in established on avoiding wars gions in Afghanistan against Unity is need of the hour [Getty] Violent extremism the relations with Washing- and staying away from region- American interests and their New security leaders are The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Salahuddin Rabbani, recently called on Afghans to ton. The reason behind this al conflicts. It has also rejected traditional allies. not only younger; they are also downgrade is that these coun- all calls urging it to take part in This article was first pub- unite in the face of the terrorist attacks. Some figures by taking orders from foreigners being promoted on the basis of are fanning differences among Afghans. The enemies of Afghanistan know well that tries were forced to reconcile the conflicts in Syria, Libya lished in Asharq al-Awsat. expertise in fighting violent ex- with Moscow when Washing- and Yemen, as well as in Sub- Abdulrahman al-Rashed is unity is key to success of Afghans, thus they will let no stone unturned to created tremism. With Islamist militants differences among various ethnic groups. However, Afghans should not be deceived ton showed no interest in Saharan Africa after the kidnap- the former General Manager of fighting on three of Algeria's them, not to mention that the ping of the Nigerian schoolgirls Al Arabiya News Channel. A by the conspiracies hatched by enemies and should remain united. borders, Bouteflika appointed The enemies should also know that three decades of wars could not divide Afghans, U.S. got into an alliance that is by Boko Haram. The U.S. took veteran and internationally ac- General Athmane "Bachir" Tart- against the Gulf states – name- all its time and was really late in claimed journalist, he is a former so their conspiracies will also be failed. The government departments, particularly spy ag to replace Mediene. agency, should take serious action against those who are fanning differ- ly the nuclear program deal participating in the Iraqi war editor-in-chief of the London- Tartag earned a reputation with Iran. The hearing revealed against ISIS. The biggest mis- based leading Arab daily ences among Afghans. as being hands-on and disci- Maisam Noori, Kart-e-Seh, Kabul that the military activity of take With the Russian expan- Asharq al-Awsat, where he still plined over the course of his Russia repeatedly violated sion, the Americans have sud- regularly writes a political col- Letter to editor will be edited for policy, content and clarity. All letters must successful counterterrorism have the writer’s name and address. You may send your letters to: European airspace last year, denly raised their voices to umn. He has also served as the [email protected] campaigns during the war of and is now violating the air- condemn these regressive pol- editor of Asharq al-Awsat’s the 1990s. He seems in a strong space of Turkey, which is a itics and are asking to recon- sister publication, al-Majalla. member state of NATO. Just sider the strategy of confron- Throughout his career, Rashed the beginning The Russian tation with the Kremlin. In my has interviewed several world military intervention in the opinion, Washington has com- leaders, with his articles garner- Disclaimer: Middle East, after the Crimea mitted its biggest mistake in ing worldwide recognition, and occupation, might not be the Iran, not in Syria. The thought he has successfully led Al Ara- The views and opinions expressed in the articles are those of the author(s) end of the alarming scenario of reaching a nuclear deal has biya to the highly regarded, and do not reflect the views or opinions of the Afghanistan Times. for the West; it is probably put constraints on the U.S. and thriving and influential position just the beginning. It is clear not Iran. Indeed, Americans it is in today. This document was created with Win2PDF available at http://www.win2pdf.com. The unregistered version of Win2PDF is for evaluation or non-commercial use only. This page will not be added after purchasing Win2PDF. SUNDAY . OCTOBER 11, 2015 AFGHANISTANTIMES

Or, for a higher price, they can cross hiding in the back of a com- mercial truck. Regardless, almost all smugglers in Sofia start at the Lions’ Bridge, a metro station and transit hub just a few blocks from the city’s central train station. “First, they will agree on the price and details,” said Pavel, a taxi driv- Po verty has driven hun dreds o f frustrated an d un em plo yed Bulgarian s to assist in illegal bo rder cro ssin gs. er from Sofia, who declined to give his last name out of fear of speak- SOFIA, Bulgaria: On any given do more to root out smuggling op- ing to a journalist about smuggling. evening, just as the sun descends erations, as stories of refugees “In two to three days, a driver will on this Balkan nation’s capital, the drowning after paying smugglers meet them somewhere else, and area around the historic Lions’ thousands of dollars to get their then they will go to the border.” Bridge becomes a meeting point for families across the Mediterranean Pavel insisted he’s not a smuggler. refugees from the Middle East, Sea in rubber dinghies have drawn But as a taxi driver with years of Africa and Asia. international attention. So far this experience on the road, he has On a typical warm night, young year, an estimated 3,000 people watched how they work from a men from Syria crowd around the have died while being smuggled distance, he said. His detailed pizza-by-the-slice shop on a cor- from Greece to Turkey. Bulgarian knowledge about how smugglers ner of Maria Luiza Boulevard. security services frequently arrest operate was backed up by refu- Across the pedestrian bridge in a and prosecute smugglers and re- gees’ stories of their experiences grassy park, Afghans gather in cir- cently imposed harsher penalties finding and using smugglers. “They cles, smoking cigarettes and pass- —10 years in prison and fines of won’t talk to you, but we can ing around smartphones connect- about $10,000 — for those con- watch how they work from here,” ing via Skype with Kabul or Jalal- victed of transporting refugees or Pavel said as he slowed his yellow abad. Foreigners — some with le- assisting in illegal border crossings. taxi to a crawl and passed the piz- gal status to be in the country, Police or border security officers za-by-the-slice shop. There, a doz- some without — go there to ex- caught assisting smugglers face up en young men and a few women change news about home and to to 12 years in prison. But Bulgar- hung around chatting. Taxi drivers share the latest information from ia’s biggest challenge is not in the milled about in the area, waiting friends and family caught up in the individual smugglers dropping off for fares. “Most of the smugglers massive migration toward Western refugees on the border for several are just common criminals who and Northern Europe. It is also a hundred euros, said Philip Gounev, have already been in jail at some place where, without much effort, the deputy interior minister. The point. They aren’t afraid of the migrants and refugees can find a larger issue is how to track down law,” he said. The Syrian Amid, smuggler who, for upward of 600 and arrest the leaders of the smug- who is living in one of Sofia’s gov- euros, will make arrangements to gling rings that are operating on a ernment refugee centers, got as far take them across the border to Ser- global scale with contacts in Tur- as Bulgaria only to find that his bia and onto the next leg of their key, Afghanistan and the Middle smuggler had gone silent, despite quest for Germany, Sweden and kan countries, is part of a transit came into the spotlight when four work here. He was starving. He Turkish organized crime rings into East. “We aren’t a rich country, having spent $3,000 in Turkey to other more prosperous countries corridor in what is now Europe’s were arrested and charged with in- had no means to support his fam- the system.’ hilip Gounev ulgar- and we’re spending most of our secure his passage to Germany. of the European Union. largest migration crisis since World volvement in what was called the ily, so that’s why he went abroad,” ia’s deputy interior minister early time and resources investigating “The problem is getting a good one, “Everyone knows to come to War II. Bulgaria’s struggling econ- truck of shame, which was found the mother of one of the accused, all the estimated 440,000 refugees and prosecuting the smaller, indi- because many tell only lies,” he the bridge to get a smuggler,” said omy has few opportunities for abandoned on Aug. 27 on a high- Metodi Ivanov, told Bulgaria’s who have crossed into Europe this vidual smugglers,” he said. “The said. He said he hopes to make his Amid, 23, a Syrian who declined those seeking a better life in Eu- way about 30 miles outside Vien- Trud newspaper on Sept. 1. She year from Syria, Afghanistan, Eri- new challenge is the infusion of the next move as soon as he finds some to give his last name because he rope, and most leave as quickly as na with 71 refugees’ decomposing said he was working as a taxi driv- trea and other countries have paid Afghans, Syrian and Turkish or- other refugees to split the cost of feared for his family’s safety in they arrive. Bulgaria’s southern bodies inside. The men will face er in Germany. His wife said that a smuggler for part or all of their ganized crime rings into the sys- going to Serbia. He had a number Damascus. “They work very flank shares a 160-mile border with trial in an Austrian court. Three of if that meant “he was driving dif- arduous journeys. Globally, refu- tem. These are the rings that we for a smuggler whom a friend used openly. It’s no problem to find one Turkey, and despite government the accused came from Bulgaria’s ferent kinds of people, he doesn’t gee smuggling is big business. Ac- must cooperate with the rest of just a few months ago, but the man’s within 10 minutes.” In Bulgaria, efforts to increase border police and desolate northern region of Loms, have responsibility for them.” ‘We cording to the Migrants’ Files, a Europe to go after.” Refugee smug- phone was turned off. “These refugee smuggling is an easy source build a fence to stop illegal cross- where poverty has driven many aren’t a rich country, and we’re collective research project, people gling through Bulgaria to Serbia guys, they aren’t serious mafia,” of income for petty criminals as ing, persistent smugglers have frustrated and unemployed locals spending most of our time and re- have paid smugglers a cumulative works in two ways: Take the refu- Amid said. “They use people like refugees from around the world found ways to get refugees across to take up cross-border contraband sources investigating and prosecut- 16 billion euros, or $18 billion, to gees to the border, drop them off us to make a few hundred euros, have arrived there in the tens of both the border with Turkey and or simply go abroad for work, ing the smaller, individual smug- get to Europe over the last 15 with a GPS coordinate to find on then they quit smuggling and go thousands in the past two years. the northern border with Serbia. neighbors of the men told Bulgari- glers. The new challenge is the in- years. Human rights groups have the other side and tell them to walk back to just being taxi drivers. Why Bulgaria, like the rest of the Bal- Last month, Bulgarian smugglers an media. “My son didn’t have fusion of the Afghans, Syrian and warned that governments should until they meet the next handler. risk more trouble?” Blo ckade po litics Meet the Leban ese fightin g in Nepal: An alysis n ext do o r in Assad’s arm y Residents from two rival communities in Tripoli have also fought on opposing sides of the battlefield in Syria. In dia's un o fficial blo ckade o f its n o rthern H im alayan n eighbo ur has deepened landlocked country's multiple crises. Tripoli, Lebanon - Coupled along- a Middle East researcher and as- plaining that Syrian soldiers are has allegiances to religious or eth- side immense posters of Syrian sociate fellow at the Chatham banned from leaving the country nic groups in other countries," he Landlocked Nepal is overwhelm- Delhi stepped back from its pre- power cuts of many hours a day. President Bashar al-Assad and House, the Syrian government during their service. "My mom told Al Jazeera. "But under the ingly reliant upon imports from vious micro-management, largely How will Kathmandu's generators Syrian government flags, the faces "tried to clone its system in Leba- goes to the border to meet him, surface, sectarian is always about India, including much of its food, limiting itself to public statements run without Indian diesel? Mean- of young men who died during vio- non between 1990 and 2005", and that's the only way she can political differences." consumer goods, and 100 percent that the constitution should accom- while, Nepali politicians of all lent clashes line the bullet-pocked when it withdrew its military from see him." RELATED: Lebanese Jabal Mohsen's residents are of its fuel - aviation fuel, petrol, modate all sections, and signing a stripes have long pleaded with New walls of the Jabal Mohsen the country under growing pres- communists gear up to battle ISIL no exception, he said. "There are diesel and cooking gas. India's un- $1bn aid agreement. he constitu- Delhi to advance their personal neighbourhood in this coastal city. sure from protesters and critics. "We are proud of him. We're proud strong political, cultural and reli- official blockade of Nepal - now in tion had been all but ratified be- ambitions. Many are reputed to For years, Tripoli has endured "It was an attempt to of everyone who fights to protect gious relations between Lebanese its third week - has, therefore, fore India seemed to wake up to have links with the Indian intelli- periodic bloodshed between Jabal 'Baathify' part of Lebanon," he Alawites in Syria," he explained, Alawites and their brethren in crippled life in this country of 30 the political crisis that was brew- gence community. The same poli- Mohsen's Alawite residents and added, referring to Assad's ruling adding that many of his friends and Syria, so it's natural that they million people. Things could get a ing along its border. Madhesis ticians are now hoping to boost their neighbours downhill in the party. Foreign fighters are nothing relatives have volunteered in pro- would support Bashar al-Assad's lot worse. Nepal protests continue share strong links with communi- their ambitions by exploiting the predominantly Sunni area of Bab new on Syria's battlefield. Assad militias that fight alongside regime." RELATED: Assad de- as fuel rationing bites India denies ties across the border, meaning that groundswell of nationalist outrage, al-Tabbaneh in Tripoli. Young men Hezbollah, the Lebanese political Syrian government forces. "Pro- fends presence of Hezbollah fight- that there is a blockade, and there turmoil in Nepal has domestic po- which the blockade has under- from both neighbourhoods have group and militia that supports the tecting them in Syria is the same ers in Syria But fighting next door is some room for ambiguity. But litical as well as security implica- standably created in Nepal. In journeyed to Syria to take up Assad government, has been fight- to us as protecting Jabal Mohsen." presents the risk of reigniting fight- the Indian Oil Corporation's re- tions. It is also significant that the Kathmandu, there is scarcely any arms. Yet, like in Tripoli, they find ing alongside the regime since the Ali al-Aasi, 24, chain-smoked ciga- ing at home. "It's neither easy nor fusal to service Nepali tankers, and populous neighbouring Indian traffic on the roads, and drivers themselves on opposite sides of outset of the crisis. On the other rettes as he flipped through pic- safe for them to come back to Tri- the candid comments of officials state of Bihar is currently holding must queue four days for a small Syria's battlefield, with fighters side of the spectrum, fighters from tures on his phone that he took in poli and have people from pro- on the border, make the situation elections, which are crucial for ration of fuel. Prices are rising, from Jabal Mohsen joining the across the globe have joined mili- Syria while serving in a tank unit Syrian opposition groups know clear enough. The crisis can be Modi's party, the BJP. Inside schools are closing, and the situa- Syrian army or militias loyal to the tant groups like the Islamic State between 2013 and early 2015. He they fought with Bashar," Sherif traced back to early August, when Story: Will a new constitution bring tion could fast deteriorate. The Syrian government, which is con- of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). held up the screen to show a shot said. "It could be very dangerous residents of Nepal's southern stability to Nepal? If Delhi had government apparently hopes to trolled by Assad's Alawite sect. Although the Lebanese army of him in a Syrian military uniform. for their community or their fami- plains bordering India, who are intervened more artfully and ear- buy some breathing space by de- Sitting in a local cafe, a dozen works to prevent clashes in Tri- He moved to the next image, in lies." Meanwhile, the Syrian army known as Madhesis, began pro- lier, it might have helped to broker claring a two-week national holi- men argued about the ongoing con- poli, it has been unable to stop which he was manning a Syrian is enduring a shortage of troops as testing provisions of the country's a constitution that was less objec- day during the coming festival sea- flict in Syria over card games, cof- young men from travelling to Syria tank. Explaining that he enlisted in many soldiers or young men of new constitution, which was then tionable to Madhesis. Instead, sup- son. The country has also scarcely fee and cigarettes. Khodar, a 24- [Dylan Collins/Al Jazeera] Long the Syrian army after his father military age flee the country to being rushed to completion in a plies to Nepal were cut off one or begun to recover from April's year-old who didn't provide his before a largely unarmed uprising was killed in a drive-by shooting avoid service. "A shortage of man- "fast-track" process. Madhesis, two days after the constitution's earthquake, which particularly dev- last name due to safety concerns, in Syria began in March 2011 - and by Salafist gunmen last year in Tri- power exists," Assad admitted who comprise around 30 percent promulgation. Nepal's new consti- astated hilly districts to the north says he returned from Syria to quickly grew into a full-on civil war poli, he said: "I watched him die. I during a speech in Damascus in late of the population, objected to the tution has country split in two of the capital. RELATED: Rebuild- Lebanon in June. "I fought in the that has claimed more than 240,000 don't care any more if I die. My July. Ali Foda, spokesman for a proposed new federal boundaries, India blames the continuing pro- ing Nepal: The rubble must go The [Syrian] army because the extrem- lives and displaced more than half father shouldn't have died. He was pro-Assad party in Lebanon, ar- to provisions that they said would tests in the southern part of the government declared 'relief opera- ists [in al-Nusra Front and ISIL] of the population - fighting be- a good man and didn't have any gues that the Syrian government is lead to their underrepresentation Himalayan nation for the fact that tions' over on June 22, but the truth have no mercy," Khodar, who tween Jabal Mohsen and Bab al- involvement in politics or these making gains [Dylan Collins/Al in the national parliament, and to nothing is getting through. In real- is that millions of people remain served a two-and-a-half-year stint Tabbaneh was frequent. But with conflicts, but I'm a fighter." Homes Jazeera] Declining to comment on the dilution of provisions which ity, New Delhi's pressure tactics in desperate need of essentials such in an infantry unit of the Syrian the Syrian catastrophe showing no on both sides of the dividing line Lebanese fighters who back Assad they hoped would lead to more rely on the fact that no one really as adequate food and shelter. The army, told Al Jazeera. "I was in sign of letting up, tensions have between Bab al-Tabbaneh and forces next door, Ali Foda, spokes- equitable representation in public believes that. Besides, a blockade government has not yet spent a Raqqa, Deraa, [and] Palmyra." soared in Tripoli. Muhammad, a Jabal Mohsen are littered with man for the Assad-funded Arab employment and official positions. cannot be openly admitted be- cent of the $4bn promised for re- Both Jabal Mohsen and Bab al- 30-year-old resident with joint bullet holes [Dylan Collins/Al Democratic Party, said only that RELATED: Unveiling Nepal's cause it would almost certainly be construction. True to form, the af- Tabbaneh are heavily militarised, Lebanese-Syrian citizenship, was Jazeera] When clashes break out "the Syrian regime is in the best constitution amid deadly protests illegal and in breach of treaty obli- termath of the earthquake has been with clashes breaking out several first summoned for military ser- in Tripoli, Aasi also fights with place it's been in years. It is mak- Madhesi groups argued that the gations. If New Delhi has miscal- disgracefully neglected by the gov- times in recent years [Dylan vice in Damascus during the sum- local militias. Scrolling to an image ing gains in many parts of the coun- constitution was being written in culated, then so has Kathmandu. ernment. The blockade can only Collins/Al Jazeera] "The [extrem- mer of 2013. After six months, he of a machete he bought "for taking try". Researcher Nadim Shehadi ar- abrogation of previous agreements, The manner of the constitution's deepen the survivors' plight. The ists] want to destroy Syria," was discharged for health reasons revenge" after his father was killed, gues that Jabal Mohsen's attach- and without consulting them. "fast-track" promulgation precipi- earthquake in Nepal left at least Khodar said. "There are a lot of us related to his asthma. He returned he said: "We protect Alawites ment to Assad will not end unless Around 45 people, including po- tated a bloody domestic crisis that half-a-million people homeless from Jabal Mohsen in Syria today." to Lebanon in December of that wherever they are. It's about our the Syrian government falls. "It's licemen, were killed in protests. A could easily have been avoided. [Getty Images] Despite its bad Like many local residents, Khodar year. Born and raised in Jabal honour and our land." Khaldoun about fear," he said. "They feel strike imposed in southern Nepal New Delhi's signals were cata- luck, and the bullying tactics of its carries dual Lebanese-Syrian citi- Mohsen, his 27-year-old brother Sherif, a researcher who specialises politically isolated and [feel] that has now been in effect for over 50 strophically misread. Kathmandu's giant neighbour, Nepal's problems zenship. Mario Abou Zeid, a re- Ahmad is currently serving in the in political movements in Tripoli, they have no one else. As long as days. Much of the country has political class told itself that all the are severely exacerbated, if not en- search analyst at the Beirut-based Syrian army and is based in Deraa, explained that regional conflicts, the Syrian regime is still there, they therefore been crippled for almost Modi government cared about in tirely created, by its own rulers. Carnegie Middle East Center, ex- a city in southern Syria. "He hasn't particularly the ongoing conflict in will not sever from it." two months. The constitution was the constitution was diluting secu- Yet, as with earthquake relief, there plained that "a large number of been able to visit since he started Syria, have led to a sharp rise of Follow Patrick Strickland on passed on September 20, by a vote larism and that India would accept is little sign of urgency from the Alawites serve in the Syrian mili- his service two years ago," already existing sectarian tensions Twitter: @P_Strickland_ in the elected assembly. The gov- a raw deal for the Madhesis in ex- government in seeking a negotiated tary" or fight with pro-Assad mi- Muhammad told Al Jazeera, ex- in Lebanon. "Every group or sect Al Jazeera ernment argues that it is democratic change for promises on commer- solution to the political causes of litias, but "the Syrian regime has and denies that it discriminates cial interests, such as hydropower the blockade. Meanwhile, the kept the exact number from the against Madhesis. New Delhi nev- development. RELATED: Nepal's blockade is grist to the mill of those public". Many local Alawites were ertheless reacted furiously. India anti-constitution protests turn vio- in Kathmandu who like to believe given Syrian citizenship during has had an influential role in Nepali lent Nepal's geography, surrounded that the unpopularity of the con- Syria's decades-long occupation of politics since the time of the Brit- on three sides by India, with the stitution in the plains is not a large swaths of Lebanon. Thou- ish Raj. In recent years the south- Himalaya and the remote Tibetan "genuine" domestic issue, but a sands of Syrian Alawites were also ern neighbour played a crucial role region of China to the north, make foreign conspiracy. In truth, even relocated to Jabal Mohsen by the in guiding and guaranteeing the it inescapably economically de- when, sooner or later, the Indian Syrian government, which, through country's 10-year peace process, pendent on India. Decades of mis- blockade is lifted, Nepal's alarm- corrupt measures, was able to ob- of which the new constitution was rule, in which short-sighted lead- ing domestic fault lines will remain. tain Lebanese citizenship for them, a central part. However, after ers have hollowed out the And the memory of India's crude as well. "Syria had a lot of power Narendra Modi was elected as economy, have heightened that intervention will cloud Nepali poli- in the Lebanese government and prime minister of India in 2014, dependence. For example, there are tics for years to come. Al Jazeera made sure Syrian Alawites in Jabal Mohsen were given Lebanese citi- zenship for voting purposes and for bulking up one of its strong- holds in Lebanon," Abou Zeid told Al Jazeera. RELATED: Syria's Druze reject calls for anti-govern- ment uprising Speaking to Al Jazeera, Jabal Mohsen residents said more and more young men have gone to Syria. Asked whether it was aware of Lebanese fighters in the Syrian army, a Lebanese military source confirmed knowledge of the trend but declined to comment further. Figh te rs fro m rival n e igh bo u rh o o ds in Tripo li are als o figh tin g e ach The earthquake in Nepal left at least half-a-million people homeless [Getty Images] According to Nadim Shehadi, o th e r o n Syria's battlefie ld [Dylan Co llin s / Al Jaze e ra] This document was created with Win2PDF available at http://www.win2pdf.com. The unregistered version of Win2PDF is for evaluation or non-commercial use only. 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Canada’s unemployment rate rises to 7.1pc as election approaches Canada’s unemployment rate rose to 7.1 per cent in September, the highest level in more than a year, as more Canadians tried to find work amid weak economic condi- tions. The last jobs report before a Bank of Canada interest rate deci- sion and the federal election in mid- LIMA: Finance ministers from the to-build consensus in some cases,” October painted a murky picture world’s leading economies gave the he told a press conference in Lima, of the country’s labour market. green light on Friday to a new plan where finance ministers and cen- The economy gained 12,100 jobs to crack down on tax evasion by tral bank governors from around in September, higher than analyst multi-national corporations which the world are gathered this week forecasts of 10,000. But the data costs countries at least $100 bil- for the annual meetings of the In- also showed job creation lagged lion a year. The so-called Base Ero- ternational Monetary Fund and Canada’s growing work force. sion and Profit Shifting (BEPS) World Bank. But the work on con- More than 1.36 million people plan, which seeks to close the loop- sensus-building has only just be- were out of work last month, the holes multi-nationals use to avoid gun. Preventing companies from highest number of unemployed taxes, was adopted by finance min- shifting profits to low-tax jurisdic- Canadians in nearly two years. isters from the G20 group of lead- tions and debt to high-tax jurisdic- The jobless rate unexpectedly rose ing industrialised and emerging tions will require “a very large to 7.1 per cent from 7 per cent, a economies at a meeting in Lima, group of countries,” particularly level not seen since February of Peru. G20 leaders must now give developing nations, to get on board last year, according to data released final approval at a summit in No- with the plan, Yilmaz said. Inter- by Statistics Canada. “Not good,” vember in Turkey, although the ini- national charity Oxfam has criti- Bank of Montreal’s chief econo- tiative was swiftly dismissed as cized the plan as a “toothless” mist Douglas Porter said in a re- lacking bite by one prominent package that will do nothing to search note. Economic data have critic. The 15-point plan aims to stop poor nations being cheated taken on greater significance ahead tackle low tax bills for the likes of out of billions of dollars. “Rich of the election on Oct. 19, with Google, Apple and McDonald’s, governments are all bark and no the Liberals and NDP accusing the which have managed to sharply bite when it comes to corporate Conservatives of mismanaging the reduce their taxes while remaining tax dodging,” said Oxfam’s Manon nation’s economy. A plunge in oil within the law, provoking public Aubry when the plan was an- prices has contributed to the coun- outrage in recent years. nounced on Monday. try’s weak economic output and Turkish Deputy Prime Min- But the author of the long- tepid job growth. In September, ister Cevdet Yilmaz, who an- awaited initiative, the Organisation public and private employers shed nounced the G20 decision, called for Economic Cooperation and De- 18,600 jobs while self-employ- it a “historic moment” for the fight velopment (OECD), said it would ment jumped by 30,800 – a po- against tax evasion. He said the give governments across the board tentially worrying development. plan addressed a “very compre- a much-needed fiscal boost. The increase in self-employment hensive set of issues” including “Base erosion and profit shift- can sometimes be concerning as it profit-shifting across borders, cor- ing is sapping our economies of can be viewed as a transition be- porations’ use of no-tax status in the resources needed to jump-start Gurria. GLOBALISATION over” for tax-dodging multi-nation- of companies that game the sys- country where their main business tween employed and unemployed, multiple countries and the digital growth, tackle the effects of the LOOPHOLES: The man who su- als. The OECD calculates that na- tem. The plan, which applies to activity is based. “It’s not about where someone losing his job tries economy. “These are very com- global economic crisis and create pervised the drafting of the plan, tional governments lose $100bn to international companies with rev- paying low or high taxes, it’s about to make it as a consultant or start- plicated issues that required an ex- better opportunities for all,” said the OECD’s Pascal Saint-Amans, $240bn a year, or four to 10 per enues of at least 750 million euros, paying your taxes,” said British ing a small business,” said Charles tensive technical effort and a hard- OECD Secretary-Feneral Angel has said it means “playtime is cent of global tax revenues, because seeks to make them pay tax in the finance minister George Osborne. St-Arnaud, executive director of economics at Nomura Internation- al PLC. Over the past year, full- time employment has increased 1.4 Japan economy minister per cent, part time work dipped 1.2 per cent and self-employment chides businesses over rose 2.5 per cent. Part-time jobs jumped by 74,000 last month while full-time work fell by lackluster investment 62,000. The weak job growth comes after Canada dipped into a Akira Am ari e xp re s s e s fru s tratio n at co m p an ie s mild recession in the first half of h o ardin g cas h as e co n o m y falte rs this year, giving the Liberals and NDP ammunition to attack Con- TOKYO:Economy Minister Akira servative Leader Stephen Harper’s Amari said Friday that Japanese economic leadership. The latest businesses must gather “courage” to jobs report “has to be disappoint- put their huge stores of cash to bet- ing for the Harper campaign,” said ter use, expressing frustration over Sherry Cooper, chief economist listless investment as the economy with Dominion Lending Centres. teeters on the edge of recession. Although the energy industry has “Companies have willingness to in- laid off thousands of workers in vest, and they have resources with response to the plunge in oil pric- their earnings at all-time highs,” Mr. es, data showed that the natural Amari told a group of reporters. resources sector only lost 2,600 “But the reality is that they have jobs. Alberta, home to the big oil yet to take the actual step forward.” companies, created 12,000 jobs in The government isn’t ruling out the September. British Columbia also idea of compiling an extra fiscal added 12,000 while Ontario lost stimulus package to underpin a the economy ride through tough 34,000. slowing economy. But private-sec- times. Mr. Amari said the govern- tor activities are ultimately more ment is willing to accelerate deregu- important for achieving sustainable lation and front-load its plan to Coral reefs growth, Mr. Amari said. “I want lower the corporate tax rate to be- companies to have courage to move low 30% from the current 32.11%. worth four times forward” with planned spending, But he warned companies must Mr. Amari said. The government offer something in return. “It as much as UK will push corporations to act would be unforgivable if the gov- A m o n e y ch an ge r dis plays U.S. an d Iran ian ban kn o te s at th e Gran d Bazaar in ce n tral Te h ran . (Re u te rs ) through direct negotiations between ernment had done this and that but economy, 'Earth officials and business leaders start- companies were adding what he Obama administration lomatic and government sources have said some international finan- Paribas, which agreed to pay al- ing later this month, he said. Mr. they’d earned to their savings,” Index' finds has privately reminded for told Reuters on Friday. The cial transactions with Iran would most $9 billion to resolve accusa- Amari’s remarks follow the release Mr. Amari said. Japanese firms had T eign governments and U.S. demarche stressed that sanctions be possible sometime next year if tions it violated U.S. sanctions of data suggesting that Japanese some 240 trillion yen (US$2 tril- oral reefs are worth £6tn a bankers that sanctions against Iran on Iran would not be lifted until Iran is found in compliance. U.S. against Sudan, Cuba and Iran. The firms may be having second lion) in cash and deposits as of year in services they pro remain in effect, cautioning against the International Atomic Energy law allows the administration to Joint Comprehensive Plan of Ac- thoughts about their planned spend- June, equivalent to half of the Cvide for people - almost four a rush by Western companies to Agency verifies that Tehran has enforce sanctions by targeting fi- tion hit on July 14 by Iran and six ing in the face of strong headwinds country’s annual economic out- times as much as the UK economy invest in Iran’s oil industry and complied with the terms of the nancial institutions in countries world powers, including the from slowing Chinese growth and put, according to the Bank of Ja- - an assessment of the value of other businesses until the country deal. 'Don't get ahead of your- that do business with the state- United States, imposes strict lim- lackluster domestic consumption. pan. Some analysts have expressed natural assets has found. fully complies with the July selves' The United States wants owned National Iranian Oil Co or its on Iran’s nuclear program in Machinery orders dropped 5.7% in concern that companies may hold The ‘Earth Index’ drawn up for nuclear agreement. to tell governments not to get ahead its subsidiaries. Companies that exchange for relief from sanctions. August, falling for three months in off on more aggressive investing, BBC Earth also found bees con- The U.S. State Department re- of themselves when dealing with breach the sanctions risk fines, as- Iran is counting on an end to sanc- a row for the first time in six years. given a deteriorating economy and tributed £106bn to the world cently cabled a message, known as Iran,” said a London-based diplo- set freezes and being cut off from tions to boost its battered Government and Bank of Japan of- structural impediments such as a economy in pollinating crops, and a demarche, to embassies around matic source. It is uncertain exactly the U.S. dollar banking system. In economy, particularly an oil and ficials had counted on capital invest- shrinking population, which keep that vultures were worth £1.6bn the world to reiterate that sanc- when the layers of Western sanc- 2014, the United States imposed a gas sector that has shriveled under ment—which accounts for about the nation’s longer-term growth for clearing up animal carcasses tions on Iran are still in place, dip- tions might be lifted, but experts record fine on French bank BNP Western sanctions. 14% of Japan’s economy—to help elusive. and preventing human health haz- ards. Vultures are an example of the price of losing nature, with the birds suffering severe declines across the Indian subcontinent due Is In dia really the fastest Pakistan un veils plan to a veterinary drug which is lethal to them. The declines led to an increase gro w in g m ajo r eco n o m y? in feral dogs which spread rabies, to privatise 6 9 en tities causing an estimated 50,000 more The in crease in GDP in In dia in abso lute n um bers is deaths, and significant clean-up are coming up and the government costs. actually m uch sm aller than the in crease in GDP in Chin a has found out that in practice these The assessment even puts a are more difficult than they had price on the value of freshwater of Whether India is the fastest grow- while India is a $2 trillion econo- of the increase in the US GDP this hoped that might be the case.” almost £46tn a year, the equiva- ing economy or not depends a lot my, China is worth $10 trillion and year. If we take GDP in purchasing Pakistani officials at the lent of the entire world economy on the measuring rod you use. It’s the US $17 trillion. So the increase power parity (PPP) terms, at cur- roadshow also acknowledged that as without freshwater the economy true that when we look at percent- in gross domestic product (GDP) rent international dollars, the pic- the event may not lead to invest- would not exist. age growth rates, India is growing in India in absolute numbers is ac- ture (chart 2) changes substantially. ments but it was important to hold Coral reefs were worth £6.2tn the fastest among the larger econ- tually much smaller than the in- This yardstick shows US GDP ris- the show. “We want to let US in- in protection from storms, provid- omies. According to the Interna- crease in GDP in China. Chart 1 ing only a little more than India’s. vestors know that there are hand- ing fish, tourism and storing car- tional Monetary Fund’s (IMF’s) shows the increase in GDP, in cur- But China’s GDP growth is still some opportunities for investment bon emissions, compared with the World Economic Outlook pub- rent US dollars, in India, China and more than double India’s. Finally, in Pakistan, particularly in the en- £1.7tn value of the UK economy lished this week, the Indian econ- the US in 2015 and 2016. The chart 3 shows the share of GDP in ergy sector,” one of them told the and almost three times the annual omy is expected to grow by 7.3% numbers are from IMF database. PPP terms of India, China and the media. price-tag of oil at just under £2.2tn. this year, China by 6.8% and the Note that the increase in India’s US. The US share has been falling Chairman Privatisation Com- The Earth Index is being published US by 2.6%. But India’s higher GDP in 2015, in terms of this yard- for several years and while India’s mission Mohammad Zubair, who in the financial sections of news- growth is due to a lower base— stick, is 13% of China’s and a fifth share is rising, so is China’s launched the roadshow on Thurs- papers around the world to put day, said that with political stabil- nature on the stock exchange. ity and significant reduction in vio- Neil Nightingale, creative di- lence, the country offers ideal in- rector of BBC Earth said: “When vestment opportunities. Take a you see the figures in black and look: Pakistan seeks US invest- white it’s illuminating to see that ment at energy roadshow the annual revenues of the world’s He informed the prospective most successful companies - investors that the federal cabinet Apple, General Motors, Nestle, had already approved the struc- Bank of China - all pale in com- WASHINGTON: Pakistan has un- have been completed. These in- turing of the Faisalabad Electric Co parison to the financial return to veiled an ambitious programme to clude UBL, PPL, ABL, HBL and for privatisation and the remain- our economy from natural assets.” privatise 69 entities at the first NPCC. The government has so far ing eight power units were also Fish are worth £171bn and tiny energy roadshow in the US capi- raised $1.715 billion from these ready. plankton, which form the basis of tal. Although the roadshow was proceeds. The IMF mission chief Possible investors were told food webs in the world’s oceans, meant to attract private investment for Pakistan, Harald Finger, told a the government had completed have a value of £139bn a year for in the energy sector, the list dis- recent news briefing in Washing- “due diligence,” or was in the pro- their role in storing carbon alone. tributed among the participants ton that the country’s cess of doing so, for PSM, PIAC, The index is based on a study included investment opportunities privatisation has had some delays. Fesco, Lesco, Gepsco, Qesco, of existing data, and aims to pilot a in other sectors as well. According “Initially the government, had noth- Pesco, Mepco, Hesco, Sepco, model for reporting the financial to this list, the government has al- ing right and so wanted to set the Kapco, NPGCL, JPCL, LPGCL contribution nature makes to the ready approved 39 entities for early tone for privatisations and create and CPGCL. global economy. Canada’s polar implementation of its privatisation an atmosphere for it by doing The government also plans to bears are worth £6.3bn, while in programme. transactions that were basically on initiate transactions for 10 addi- the UK, the value of nature has Of these, transactions have al- the capital market side and were tional entities, which include SME been estimated at 1.5tn, with soils ready been initiated for 23 entities relatively easy to undertake,” he Bank and State Life Insurance Cor- generating £5.3bn a year and bees but so far only have transactions said. “Now the more difficult ones poration. generating £651m. This document was created with Win2PDF available at http://www.win2pdf.com. The unregistered version of Win2PDF is for evaluation or non-commercial use only. This page will not be added after purchasing Win2PDF. SUNDAY . OCTOBER 11, 2015 AFGHANISTANTIMES Bollywood celebs and their gender bending wardrobes

The rules of dressing seem to have changed as Bollywood beauties bet on the dead butch look and the men add a feminine touch to their sar- torial choices Gone are the days when there was a clear demarcation of what was considered feminine clothing, and what was butch. Though a woman experimenting with 'mas- culine' clothes is hardly new, there seems to be an uprising of sorts in the arena of men's fashion too. We recently saw Alia Bhatt showing off her feisty dance moves don- ning a moustache and tuxedo in the Gulaabo song from Shaandaar. Be- fore that, we had Ranveer Singh walking into media events sport- ing floral prints galore. hitlist takes a cue from some fashion forward Bollywood celebs who have suc- cessfully shattered stereotypes by togging up in gender-neutral clothing...Distressed denims are all the rage and have gotten a nod from both men and women. In fact, Alia Just a couple of months ago there it as some floating rumor, but now which Sallu played in recent time Besides it is also pertinent to men- Bhatt channeled her quirky sense was a buzz that things are no longer after seeing the recent develop- in this one he is looking far more tion here that in order to make his of style by opting for ripped jeans as cordial between Salman and ments don't know why we are feel- fierce. On the hind side you can avatar fully authentic, Salman has with an overcoat for a recent event. Aamir as they use to be. And that's ing that Salman and Aamir are genu- either call it a coincidence or our already started pursuing training Sidharth Malhotra, too, seems to because incidentally both of them inely competing with each other. observer bias, but up till some ex- in wrestling and mixed martial arts be embracing the trend. Suit have landed in the same battle ter- And what made us think so is the tent even these looks of Salman with international fight coordina- blissShruti Hassan gave the tux a ritory with their respective films just released first look of Salman's are reminding us of Aamir's tor Larnell Stovall for this movie. twist of sorts and pretty much re- based on a somewhat similar upcoming cine flick "Sultan" in "Dangal" avatar. Isn't it guys? Produced by Aditya Chopra defined rules when she walked the theme. Another buzz about their which he is playing the character Anyhow. While unveiling this first under YRF banner this directorial red carpet for an awards ceremony alleged tiff in the recent past fur- of a 40-year-old Haryanvi wres- look from his twitter handle venture of Salman is expected to wearing a quintessentially male ther exposed the severity of the tler, Sultan Ali Khan. And believe Salman wrote: "Here is a picture clash with SRK's Raees on Eid next outfit. While we give credit to Brad situation. Though we considered me unlike many of the avatars that was taken while training." year. Pitt and Angelina Jolie for bringing back his-her suits the way they did at the BAFTA Film Awards in 2014, Athiya Shetty and Sooraj Review: Pancholi seem to be pulling off the unisex trend with panache too. 'Jazbaa' - Styl- Flower ballad Ranveer Singh gets extra points just for going big on ishly thrilling experimentation. And though it After having successfully made the comes along, something that excites borders on queer at times, it man- transition to cinema and then me, I would definitely go ahead and ages to break out of the box. If you Bollywood, you would think a star do it," she says. Mahira adds, "Tele- followed by a stint at an Arizona thought dainty, floral prints were like Mahira Khan would never look vision has given me a lot of love only for the elegant female, he back at her humble homeground, and I have a lot of respect for that rehabilitation facility, generated television. But the Humsafar ac- medium, but at the same time I tabloid rumors of struggles with tress has said named "some excel- would like to be involved in a pills, alcohol, or even difficulties lent TV projects" as the secret to project that offers a challenge or over her breakup with pop star her success, and sent out a clear something novel." So fans can defi- Justin Bieber, which Gomez told statement to her fans in an inter- nitely look forward to seeing Billboard angered her. “I wanted view with Khaleej Times: "TV is Mahira in a new light! She even so badly to say, ‘You guys have something I will never cut all ties leaves a piece of advice for aspiring no idea. I’m in chemotherapy,” she with. Let me say this, I will never actors: "With actors, the best thing told the magazine in its new issue divorce television." Could it be is that each one brings something which was out on Thursday. “But then that after the release of her different to the table. So my advice I was angry I even felt the need to next films, Ho Mann Jahaan (on would be to know your strength say that. It’s awful walking into a January 1) and Raees (on Eid and excel in that. Pretty soon you restaurant and having the whole 2016), we will see her return to will carve a niche for yourself. There room look at you, knowing what the small screen? Also read: Ho is never a formula or a shortcut to they’re saying. I locked myself Mann Jahaan to be a New Year's it. But it's your determination and away until I was confident and release "If a really good script your self-confidence." Cast: Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, comfortable again.” Gomez gained Irrfan Khan, Shabana Azmi, Chan- fame as a Disney Channel actress dan Roy Sanyal, Atul Kulkarni, in her teens on The Wizards of Jackie Shroff and Sara Arjun Di- Waverly Place, before launching a rector: Sanjay Gupta Rating: *** music career with hits such as Love Anuradha Varma (Aishwarya Rai You Like A Love Song. Read: 5 fun Jami's Moor up Bachchan) is a successful criminal facts about Instagram you prob- lawyer whose life turns topsy-tur- ably didn’t know “It’s so disap- vy when her young daughter San- pointing that I’ve become a tab- aya (Sara Arjun) is kidnapped loid story. against 80 films suddenly. As ransom, she is com- It took away everything I pelled to handle the case of a mur- loved about this business,” she derer and rapist Niyaaz (Chandan added. Gomez, whose new album Roy Sanyal) and has to ensure he Revival debuts on Friday, said she in Oscars race walks out free. Loaded with grey Pop singer and actress Selena therapy,” Gomez, 23, told Bill- is staying healthy now through characters, "Jazbaa" is the trans- Gomez has revealed in an inter- board magazine. “That’s what my “diet, routine and medication,” as makes you rethink. Ranveer The full list of submissions to Best Film in a Foreign Language formation of a confident criminal view that she was diagnosed with break was really about. I could’ve well as by surrounding herself with sported a floral print coat with lav- category at the 88th Academy Awards was released today lawyer into a helpless and frus- ender coloured pants with a hat trated mother, trying to rescue her the autoimmune disease lupus, had a stroke,” she said. Read: How supportive friends. Some 1.5 mil- which led to her canceling the end Bieber gives ‘goosebumps’ to lion Americans suffer from lupus, and seemed to have one message daughter from her kidnappers. for the boys: ditch the mundane. Aishwarya, seen on screen after a of her tour in 2013, but that the Gomez? Gomez canceled concerts according to the Lupus Founda- long hiatus, has a pivotal role, disease is now in remission. in Russia and Australia saying at tion of America. The disease Denim flair Denim on denim is a which she fits to perfection. Con- “I was diagnosed with lupus, the time that she needed “to spend mainly strikes females between the fun trend to sport, but can be quite fident, erudite as a lawyer, she and I’ve been through chemo- some time on myself.” The move, ages of 15 and 44 years old. tricky in some ways. Both gen- portrays the anguish of a single ders are comfortably wearing it mother searching for her daughter though. We love Kangana Ranaut's with equal ease and aplomb. Irrfan chic take on the look with a cham- as Inspector Yohan, who is Traversing street style this season bray shirt and Oxfords pairing. Anuradha's childhood friend, de- Bandana swag Take a leaf from livers one of his best performanc- More than any red-carpet look, Farhan Akhtar's book and team es. His character is multi-faceted: street aka pedestrian style is the your casual outfit with a headband. quirky, emotional, caring, efficient real indicator of what runway Essentially considered a female ac- trends have taken off for a fashion cessory, an increasing number of and corrupt. Cumulatively, these season. Some fads established on make his character interesting and the ramp don’t graduate to the men can be seen playing with dif- endearing. Convicted for the rape streets and simply get snubbed. ferent styles of bandanas and and murder of Siya, daughter of While local fashion week trend- headbands. We saw Priyanka professor Garima Chowdhary spotting is centered on the red car- Chopra walking out of the city air- (Shabana Azmi), Chandan Roy pet, the runways in Milan, New port sporting this particular look. Sanyal as Niyaaz manages to look York, London and Paris attract Designerspeak I think we are the part of a dodgy and brazen street-style photographers, who slowly realising and thankfully so, criminal, but tends to overdo his snap attendees as they walk their that function and individuality with character in certain scenes. Veter- way to attend a show. As street an edge are much more important an actor Shabana Azmi with her style becomes as distinctive a tra- than what's conventionally appro- commanding presence on screen, verser of trends as the red carpet, priate. I think Ranveer Singh has essays her character of an an- we take a look at some of fashion’s paved the way for a metrosexual guished mother, who has lost her latest fads that have dominating trend within the Bollywood bri- daughter, brilliantly. Her balanced both platforms this season. Win- gade with his risque and sexy style portrayal, juxtaposed with emo- ter is approaching and calls for a - Rocky S Structure is back with a tional but controlled outbursts, is lot of layering. Take a cue from the bang. Most designs for both men a treat to watch. Jackie Shroff as Spring/Summer 2016 runways and Mahesh Maklai, an ambitious and focus on layering your bottoms. and women are seeing sharper sil- ruthless politician, is competent, This layering technique riveted our houettes and absolutely non-gen- but adds nothing new to this oft- attention when model Kendall der based cuts - Raghavendra seen character. Siddhanth Kapoor Jenner was spotted wearing a dress Rathore This is the future of fash- Pakistan is making its third at- submissions include India's Mar- as Sam Maklai, son of Mahesh by The Row over pants. The trend ion because we can finally wear tempt to enter the Oscars race this athi legal drama Court, Jalal’s Sto- Maklai, fails to impress even has since been rocked by Emma what we like instead of being year since the re-institution of the ry from Bangladesh, Nepal’s Ta- though he tries to bring histrionics Watson, who wore a Christian bound by what we are supposed practice in 2012, and Jami Mah- lakjung vs Tulke and Afghanistan's to the screen in the bit role he has. Dior dress over cropped pants to to wear. In Bollywood, Alia Bhatt mood's poignant drama Moor has Utopia. Atul Kulkarni, as the public pros- this year’s Golden Globes. This and Shraddha Kapoor are two been sent for consideration in the Our other neighbors are send- ecutor, merely mouths dialogues season, pants have been paired icons who I have seen sporting this Best Film in a Foreign Language ing Go Away Mr. Tumor (China), and delivers those well, as expect- with skirts and the way to wear it trend tremendously - Jyoti category. Muhammad: The Messenger of ed of an actor of his calibre. But is to keep it simple, top up and Sachdev Iyer I think women are The final list of submissions God (Iran) and “Memories on it's just another lawyer in a Hindi keep the silhouettes contrasting for carrying off men's clothing quite to the category was released to- Stone (Iraq). film. There is no nuance to his flat the bottoms. effortlessly. Kangana Ranaut is a day, which revealed that Moor is Nominations for next year’s character. The taut and well writ- Sport flared pants with a long pen- classic example of someone who up against 80 other films in the Oscars will be announced on Jan- ten screenplay, although inspired cil skirt or try trousers with a ball- can pull off a boyfriend shirt and race. uary 14, and the ceremony will take by a Korean film, "Sebeun Deijeu", gown skirt. This look has little to pant-shirt with Brogues and to- The 81 foreign-language sub- place on February 28 at the Dolby meaning "Seven Days", is cleverly do with utility, as the skirt worn over pants is pure ornamentation tally own the look. Alternatively, missions will be reduced to a short- Theatre in Hollywood, and will be layered, giving the film an intrigue and mainly adds drama and excite- to find pants that appear at least a shows by Vivienne Westwood, 3.1 we have Ranveer Singh who can list of nine, and then narrowed televised live in more than 225 factor throughout. Never once is ment to the outfit. Stella size bigger and tying them at the Phillip Lim and Dries Van Noten, get away with donning a floral pant down to five finalists. countries and territories world- there a dull moment and the film McCartney AW 2015 collection waist with a belt or a scarf. This particularly in street-style photo- suit and pull it off better than any- From the South Asian region, wide. keeps you riveted to the screen. The key to sporting this trend is fad was ubiquitous on the SS16 graphs. one else. This document was created with Win2PDF available at http://www.win2pdf.com. The unregistered version of Win2PDF is for evaluation or non-commercial use only. This page will not be added after purchasing Win2PDF. SUNDAY . OCTOBER 11, 2015 AFGHANISTANTIMES

the spot-fixing tainted duo. Mahmood said Butt and Asif will feature in their team in the First-class tournament starting in various cities from October 26. “I was told of Butt and Asif's availability so I gave the sports de- partment the go ahead and they have signed them,” Mahmood told AFP. Butt and Asif are undergoing a rehabilitation programme under the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) since being relieved of the sanc- Barcelona prosecutors have lion euros ($4.5 million) in unpaid the father of the Argentina playmaker. his life to reading, studying or tions imposed on a five-year spot- cleared footballer Lionel Messi of taxes from 2007-09. A Spanish Jorge avoided paying tax on his son's analysing" the contracts. But the fixing ban. The pair, along with an- wrongdoing in a tax fraud case but judge had recently rejected an ap- earning by using offshore companies high court in Barcelona had, in June, other paceman Mohammad Amir, are calling for the arrest of his fa- peal filed by the player's lawyers between 2007 and 2009, according ruled that he should not be cleared were banned and jailed over a 2010 ther. Prosecutors are seeking an 18- to drop the Barcelona star from to the prosecutors. The El Pais news- for not knowing what was happen- spot-fixing scandal in England. The month prison sentence for Jorge the case. In the documents made paper reported that the footballer's ing with his finances. The pair made trio was accused of arranging de- Horacio Messi for allegedly de- public on Tuesday, prosecutors lawyers argued that the Barcelona a voluntary €5m 'corrective pay- liberate no-balls during the Lord's frauding Spain's tax office of 4 mil- also called for a fine of $2.2m for star had "never devoted a minute of ment' in August 2013. Agencies Test against England in return for money in August 2010. Amir is already playing do- mestic cricket after being relieved of his five-year ban in January fol- lowing an amendment in the Inter- national Cricket Council's code of conduct which allowed banned players to feature in home matches a few months prior to their ban ends. Butt and Asif were not given that relaxation and it is unclear whether the PCB will allow the duo an early return as Mahmood says. The Wapda boss has been more forgive and said he was in favour of giving disgraced players a second chance. “I am clear- headed that they deserved a sec- ond chance. In my opinion anyone who has received punishment for his crime is better than those who never get punishment for their wrongdo- ings,” said Mahmood. PCB last month said the trio will be barred LAHORE: Wapda chairman Zafar Mohammad Asif's return to com- from first class and international Mahmood has thrown his weight petitive cricket, two days after the match until the program ends on behind Salman Butt and former domestic champions signed February 28 next year. Chris Euban k Jr an d his father get peo ple talkin g, Novak Djokovic matched Jimmy the centre court," he said. "I guess Pennetta announced that she would with a 1-6, 6-2, 6-1 win over Mirjana Connors for the second-longest as I keep coming back each year retire at the end of the season - a Lucic-Baroni. Men's results: 1- says Eddie H earn unbeaten record at an ATP Tour with that positive record, obvi- decision she reaffirmed on Thursday. Novak Djokovic (Serbia) beat Zhang event by beating Chinese wild card ously gives me more confidence She has one more tournament sched- Ze (China) 6-2 6-1 Fabio Fognini Zhang Ze 6-2, 6-1 to improve to knowing that I played so well in uled next week in Tianjin, China, and (Italy) beat 7-David Goffin (Bel- 26-0 at the China Open. Djokovic the past on this court." On the could still qualify for the WTA Fi- gium) 6-2 2-6 6-2 Pablo Cuevas has won five titles at the China women's side, the US Open final- nals in Singapore, though her loss to (Uruguay) beat Ivo Karlovic Open in the past six years, exclud- ists from Italy - Flavia Pennetta Pavlyuchenkova dented her chances. (Croatia) 7-6(5) 7-6(7) Women's re- ing 2011, when he did not play the and Roberta Vinci - both lost in "There is nothing going to change if I sults: 5-Garbine Muguruza Blanco tournament. Djokovic matched the third round. Pennetta, the US go to Singapore or not. My career is (Spain) beat Mirjana Lucic-Baroni Connors' 26-0 record at the ATP Open champion, lost to Russia's going to be over anyway," she said. (Croatia) 1-6 6-2 6-1 Anastasia Cav has event in Birmingham, Alabama, Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova 3-6, 6- "Of course, is going to be nice to go Pavlyuchenkova (Russia) beat 3- from 1974-1980, and now only 4, 6-3, while Vinci was beaten by to Singapore. If I make it, it's OK. If Flavia Pennetta (Italy) 3-6 6-4 6-3 trails Rafael Nadal's 31-0 start at American qualifier Bethanie I don't, I go on vacation." Wimbledon Bethanie Mattek-Sands (U.S.) ‘big job’ to the French Open from 2005-2009. Mattek-Sands 6-1, 3-6, 6-2 Fol- finalist Garbine Muguruza of Spain beat 15-Roberta Vinci (Italy) 6-1 3- "I feel very pleasant playing on lowing her triumph in New York, clinched her spot at the WTA finals 6 6-2 (AP) reach Rio Shane Sutton has warned that Mark Cavendish has a “big job” Nishikori, Wawrinka Gleneagles on his hands to earn a place in Great Britain’s track team for Rio 2016 but is confident the Manxman’s advance in Japan bid to win a first Olympic medal co uld m ake Asco t will ultimately be successful. Cav- Lo cal h e ro s e als s traigh t-s e ts w in o ve r Aidan O'Brien has his fingers O'Brien. "It's been hard on him as endish, 30, wants to ride the om- Querre y w h ile Waw rin ka be ats Ito in th re e se ts crossed dry weather will hold so he's been peaked three or four nium in Brazil and last week an- he can run Gleneagles in the Queen times and hasn't got to run, but he nounced he had signed a contract Elizabeth II Stakes at Ascot on seems in good form." O'Brien has with road team Dimension Data Saturday week. The Ballydoyle not ruled out Found making a that will allow him to spend time trainer is keen to let the leading quick reappearance on Champions training and racing on the track in three-year-old miler take his Day after she was beaten five preparation. The six-event omni- chance after being frustrated by lengths when ninth to Golden Horn um is suited to sprinters such as unsuitable ground on three occa- in the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe. Cavendish, but he faces stiff com- Promoter Eddie Hearn believes ris- When I've seen Eubank Jr fight sions since the star colt's victory "It's possible she could go to As- petition for Britain's sole place ing middleweight star Chris in the past and then I've seen 'En- in the St James's Palace Stakes at cot," he said. "She's in good form from Ed Clancy, who won bronze Eubank Jr and his legendary father glish' get in the ring, the whole au- the Royal meeting. Since then the and came out of the Arc well. She in the discipline at London 2012. form a 'unique package.' dience and the whole of social me- dual 2000 Guineas hero has been a didn't have much of a race really - Sutton, who is British Cycling's The 26-year-old Eubank Jr dia are talking about it. late withdrawal from the Sussex she went to the line on the bridle. technical director, told (19-1-KO14) recently signed with Eddie Hearn Stakes, Juddmonte International "She'll do a couple of bits of work skysports.com: "He has got a big Hearn's Matchroom Promotions "From a personality point of and Irish Champion Stakes. this week and if everybody's job on his hands to win that spot. and is preparing to make his Sky view, as a package and him as a "Hopefully if the forecast is right happy, she might go to Ascot next He knows that and we have talked Sports debut against Tony Jeter fighter, I'm very excited about and the week is good and he's well weekend." Found holds entries in about it. At this moment in time on October 24. Accompanied by Eubank Jr and you're going to see through the middle of the week, the Qipco British Champions Fil- we have got the omnium bronze his former world champion father, him in some huge fights on Sky there's every chance (he will run) lies and Mares Stakes the Qipco medallist and one of the fastest now known simply as 'English', Sports."Beyond the Jeter bout, and we'd look forward to it," said Champion Stakes. endurance riders in the world in the Brighton fighter is hoping to Eubank Jr is expected to face Gary Ed Clancy, so Mark has got his progress from WBA interim world 'Spike' O'Sullivan (21-1-KO14) on work cut out. "But in the track rac- champion status and Hearn has December 12 but has hinted at the es he has done so far since he came highlighted the commercial appeal possibility of stepping up a divi- Local favourite Kei Nishikori ad- his past 16 tournaments. back [Cavendish won the Madi- surrounding the signing. sion to challenge James DeGale for vanced to the quarterfinals of the French Open champion son alongside Sir Bradley Wiggins Bet nowBet £5 get £20 free his IBF world super-middleweight Japan Open with a 7-6 (3), 6-3 Wawrinka avenged last year's at a Revolution Series meeting in He told Sky Sports: "I've spent title next year. victory over Sam Querrey while opening round defeat to Tatsuma Derby in August], he has already today following the Eubanks James Degale may be a target top-seed Stan Wawrinka also pro- Ito, by beating the 116th-ranked been very competitive and he around Sky Sports being inter- for Eubank Jr if he steps up a divi- gressed with a three-set win. Japanese 6-3, 2-6, 6-4. hasn't even started putting his viewed and they have a unique sion James Degale may be a target Second-seeded Nishikori set "It was a tough match and af- shine on the track side of things package. "Boxing is about person- for Eubank Jr if he steps up a divi- up match point with a blistering ter losing to him last year, I am yet. "I can see Mark making this a alities and when I've seen Eubank sion Hearn added: "Eubank Jr backhand down the line and won happy to have gotten through," real fruitful journey for himself. His Jr fight in the past and then I've against DeGale is a massive fight. with a forehand smash, securing Wawrinka said. desire is to win an Olympic medal seen 'English' get in the ring, the There's also George Groves and his third straight win in seven "I tried to mix up my play in and I can see that coming to frui- whole audience and the whole of Martin Murray there. There are matches against the unseeded the third set to move him around tion." Should Cavendish be select- social media are talking about it. It so many huge fights out there for Querrey. "With the strong wind more. I have one day off now and ed for the omnium in Rio, he would doesn't mean it's right or wrong - Eubank Jr. and playing against a big server like will train to be ready for my next automatically also have to act as a you can have your own opinion "The focus for Eubank Jr right him, I needed a lot of concentra- match." Third-seeded Gilles Simon back-up rider for the team pursuit. about it. You're still talking about now is the middleweight division. tion," Nishikori said. "After win- of France also advanced to the However, Sutton would like to see it. "For a promoter there's nothing He's virtually in the mandatory po- ning the tiebreak, I was able to set- quarterfinals with a 6-4, 6-2 win him put himself forward as a po- better than having a fighter people sition for Daniel Jacobs, and that's tle down and relax more in the sec- over Jiri Vesely of the Czech Re- tential starter for both events. "I are talking about. Eubank Jr can definitely a fight he'd like. ond set." The 25-year-old Nish- public. Simon will face Luxem- think he has got that raw ingredi- really fight. You're talking about a "The Spike O'Sullivan fight is ikori, who is bidding for his third bourg's Gilles Muller, a 7-6 (3), 7- ent that is needed to go quick and guy who's No 1 in the world and another interesting fight. I think it's Japan Open title, has now reached 6 (5) winner over Jeremy Chardy that is something he should be con- we haven't even scratched the sur- got some nice spice to it. But the quarterfinals or better at 13 of of France. AP sidering, and let's hope he does." face yet. Eubank Jr against DeGale is huge." This document was created with Win2PDF available at http://www.win2pdf.com. The unregistered version of Win2PDF is for evaluation or non-commercial use only. This page will not be added after purchasing Win2PDF. SUNDAY . OCTOBER 11 . 2015-Mizan 19, 1394 H.S Vol:X Issue No:73 Price: Afs.15

MAIMANA: Local officials on Saturday said that Afghan security forces have recaptured the Gorzai- wan district of northern Faryab Depression and anxiety disorders have high rate among Afghans. Around province after being captured by 72 percent of people affected by depression are women, said Feroz. Taliban insurgents. Afghan securi- ty personnel supported by local upraising groups had pushed the LASHKARGAH: The governor militants back from the district cen- of southern Helmand province on tre on Saturday morning, Faryab Saturday claimed some people in deputy governor Abdul Sattar the Garamser district had grabbed Barez told Pajhwok Afghan News. government land due to which the The district was fallen to Taliban s security situation and other relat- hands late on Thursday without any ed problems were on the rise. resistance, when the Afghan forces Let s find legitimate solution said they had retreated from the By Akhtar M. Nikzad Afghanistan. It is said that drug for the problem of land grabbing, district center as a tactical move. addiction is outcome of mental because it has become a sources of public upraising, said. A large tal of Faryab, to fight against mil- public uprising, he said. Taliban KABUL: The Ministry of Public problems. The theme for World of several other issues in the dis- The militants also vacate the dis- Health (MoPH) marked the World Mental Health Day, marked on 10 trict centres without any resistance, number of upraising members itants, but rebels had already left have so far not commented on los- Mental Health Day (WMHD) trict, Governor Mirza Khan Ra- Gulam Sakhi Navid, a former Jiha- have gathered in Balcheragh dis- the area without any resistance as ing control on Gorzaiwan district. October, is Dignity in mental himi said while addressing a gath- trict and Maimana City, the capi- they were informed about the (Pajhwok) here on Saturday. The MoPH health . The day provides public ering. If the local people stopped di commander who is also member termed mental illness as a nation- awareness and opportunities for seizing lands, government would wide problem. Speaking at the all health employees to talk about give these lands on lease to the ceremony, the Minister of Public their needs and accelerate their people; otherwise individuals in- 3 wedding Health, Ferozuddin Feroz, said efforts for decreasing mental ill- volved in land mafia would be US congress members call for that women are more prone to ness. Medical Superintendent of punished as the government mental health problems than men. Alawddin Mental Health Hospi- launched the reassessment pro- guests killed in Depression and anxiety dis- tal, Khwaja Siddiqi, said that they cess of lands, he said. If the dis- troop levels to be maintained orders are the major mental illness- receive around around 200 pa- trict people don t grow poppy in aerial firings es that have high rate among Af- tients of mental health issues on their fields, the government would Twenty three U.S Congress Mem- our footprint and hindering our in- the U.S. "Now is not the time to ghans. Nearly 72 percent of peo- daily basis. He added that major- implement many development bers signed a letter and sent it to telligence capabilities going for- withdraw," they said adding that the CHARIKAR: Three people in- ple affected by depression are ity of patients, who come to the projects in the town and would President Barack Obama this week ward. This would severely limit current presence of 9,800 troops in cluding a child were killed and two women and 60 percent of those hospital for treatment, are wom- find market for the agriculture pro- urging him to reconsider his draw- our ability to conduct counterter- Afghanistan should be maintained women injured in wedding cele- suffering from anxiety disorders en. In most cases they complain duce of the district people, he down plans of troops in Afghani- rorism operations," the congress through 2016. This week, United bratory firings in Bagram district are men, he added. He said that of domestic violence and pover- promised. District Chief Ayub stan and instead maintain the cur- members said. They went on to States defense secretary, Ashton of central Parwan province, an currently 300 centers are provid- ty, he said. Omar Omari praised the Garams- rent levels through 2016. The con- say that President Ashraf Ghani Carter, added his voice to the pile official said Saturday. The inci- ing mental health services. He add- Siddiqi added that they are er people for cooperating the gov- gress members said in their letter was a willing partner and had pub- and called on NATO allies on dent took place on Friday night ed that lack sufficient capacity to providing the patience both con- ernment for the security of the dis- that while they felt the U.S had lically expressed his desire for U.S Thursday in Brussels to remain flex- when the groom s father opened provide satisfactory services to sultation and therapy for free. trict, saying they would not let achieved considerable progress in troops to remain. They said that ible when they review their plans happy fire in Sinzayee area of people with mental health issues. Najib, who suffers from anxiety anybody to capture government Afghanistan, the country will once partly due to U.S efforts, key eco- of troop withdrawal from Afghani- Bagram, Provincial Council sec- Lack of mental health workers disorders, said that as a result of land or grow poppy, but the gov- again become a safe haven for ter- nomic indicators, such as commer- stan. Carter said a number of NATO retary Shamsul Haq Shaikhani told and insufficient budged are the the mental health illness people ernment should find working op- rorism if the United States aban- cial activity, infant mortality and allies indicated a willingness to re- Pajhwok Afghan News. He said two main problems that prevent usually disgrace him. portunities for the residents of the dons their investment. "Al Qaeda access to clean water and health view their plans. "I was very pleased that the father of the groom was the MoPH from providing men- Najib is one of the thousands district. Although the district has and its affiliates, the Taliban, the facilities have improved in the coun- to hear ministers of defense from performing Attan (local dance) tal health services to affected peo- people with mental health issues border with Pakistan, the securi- Haqqani Networks, as well as the try. The congress members said: our NATO partners reaffirm their when the barrel of his Kalashnik- ple across the country, Feroz who is deprived of his human ty of the district is comparatively ov turned down and shot wedding said, adding that the MoPH is rise of ISIS (Daesh) continue to "Withdrawing from a country does commitment discussing not guests. A seven-your-old grand- rights in Afghanistan. Article 1 of better due to the cooperation of present persistent and multifacet- not mean the problem goes away. whether but how to continue the committed to raise the number of the Universal Declaration of Hu- son of the groom s father and two mental health centers from 300 to the locals with the government for ed challenges to the region. While Instead, premature withdrawal in mission in Afghanistan. It is of other relatives of the family were man Rights affirms that: All hu- maintaining security, a member of the capability of the Afghan Na- Iraq (for instance) allowed ISIS course the view of the United 500. man beings are born equal in dig- killed where two women sus- He termed war, unemploy- provincial council, Baryalai Naz- tional Security forces continues to (Daesh) to take advantage of the States," Carter said. tained injuries in the firings, he nity and in rights. In the same ari, said. We don t want small improve, they still rely heavily on nascent Iraqi Security Forces. We He said that they are continu- said. Bagram district Chief Abdul ment and poverty as major fac- time, the Preamble of the UN projects to be executed, but the our training and expertise," read cannot allow this to happen again ing the mission in a 3-step action Shakoor Qudusi confirmed the tors behind raise of mental health Convention on the Rights of Per- government should construct the letter. "Our current force in Afghanistan." In conclusion, plan. The first step was when Pres- incident, saying the injured were problems among Afghans. Ac- sons with Disabilities states that: roads, irrigation systems and mar- strength is the minimum capable they said the U.S must ensure that ident Barack Obama decided in evacuated to hospital in Kabul for cording to a survey jointly con- Discrimination against any per- keting facilities for our products, of adequately staffing our bases. Afghanistan does not once again March this year to maintain 9 800 treatment. The perpetrator of the ducted by the Afghan and US gov- son on the basis of disability is a a tribal elder from the district, Any further reduction would re- become a place for extremists to US troops in Afghanistan until the incident was arrested by police, ernment across the country, there violation of the inherent dignity Bakht Meer, said. (Pajhwok) sult in base closures, minimizing devise and carry out plots against end of this year. he said. (Pajhwok) are three million drug addicts in and worth of the human person . This document was created with Win2PDF available at http://www.win2pdf.com. The unregistered version of Win2PDF is for evaluation or non-commercial use only. This page will not be added after purchasing Win2PDF.